Casting Light upon the Shadow

I often quote my daughter who once said, when asked what I do, that I “Stand around in fields getting emotional.” Well, if your interest is ...

There are many mysteries wallowing unsolved in the murky depths of the period known - erroneously as it happens - as the Dark Ages, from the...

Come with me if  you will, to the pretty Cotswold town of Winchcombe. But this is not an ordinary journey, far from it. Today we are going b...

It’s probably one of the more famous incidents in Anglo-Saxon history: An invading Viking king is killed by being thrown into a pit of snake...

August in Old English was  Weod-mōnaþ  (Plant month). Bede, writing in the eighth century, said it was so called because this is the month w...

  It's July already and in the northern hemisphere that means that Summer is usually well into its stride, we've passed the Summer S...

  June already! In Old English this month was called Ærra Līþa "Before Midsummer", or sometimes  Brāh-mānod "First Summer...