Pope Gregory I, known as Gregory the Great, was one of the most important popes, and his positive legacy is still felt today ...

Nearby, the York Castle Museum is an old-school, sedate Victorian home show. English memorabilia from the 18th, 19th, and ...

City offers fascinating historic sights from a range of eras, nestled within the medieval walls of an easygoing, walkable ...

St. Paul's Church in Jarrow dates back to ... of Sid the Saxon gives a tour of a reconstructed Anglo-Saxon village in Jarrow, north-east England. The uses of different materials like wattle ...

A metal detectorist surveying a field in Leeds, England recently happened upon a medieval Saxon pendant covered in gold leaf.

Inhabited by a succession of Celts, Romans, Anglo-Saxons, Scandinavians and Normans ... it stems from “St Mary at the Bourne, ...

Pluckley has been known as the most haunted village in England for more than 70 years, with locals fearing ghostly figures ...

A series of tantalising mysteries associated with the “most haunted” village in England ... an Anglo-Saxon settlement and boasts several historic buildings including a 14th century church.

This lesser-known village is northwest Wiltshire has everything you'd expect from the Cotswolds, including mellow stone ...

A couple of miles north of Stamford Bridge, pocket-sized Buttercrambe’s heritage is as rich as the bountiful soils on a bend ...

Catholic feminist writer Debra Maria Flint has criticised the absence of women at the forthcoming Papal Conclave and called for the creation of lay women cardinals with voting rights at future synods.