Casting Light upon the Shadow

Here we are already in December, in Old English  Ærra Gēola "Before Yule", or "First Yule". This year 1st December fall...

Often, fiction has been the lure for me to explore aspects of history which take me sideways, rather than back or forth from my favourite pe...

Back in November 2023, as Storm Ciarán was raging, I drove most of the length of England to visit Crowland Abbey in Lincolnshire, a place wh...

October: Winterfyllēð "Winter full moon", according to Bede "because winter began on the first full moon of that month [of Oc...

September ushers in the Autumn (or Hærfest , which is very succinct and descriptive, like so much of Old English). The changing of the seaso...

One of the most famous (or should that be notorious?) Anglo-Saxon women is Lady Godiva or, to give her her Old English name, Godgifu. And th...

When were women legally allowed to petition for divorce? Perhaps one might guess at the late nineteenth or even early twentieth century? In ...