Casting Light upon the Shadow

Here’s a little test: Torpenhow . Know how to pronounce it? Know its derivation? If it helps at all, it’s in Cumbria, and it’s a hill… and i...

“So great is said to have been the fervour of the faith of the Northumbrians and their longing for the washing of salvation, that once when...

The Anglo-Saxons are remote. They were folk who left comparatively little behind, certainly in terms of where they lived and how they dresse...

Someone asked my - adult - daughter once if I travelled to many locations in the course of my research. Her answer was: 'She stands arou...

It would be no surprise that childhood in centuries past was radically different from the experience of youngsters in the 20th and 21st cent...