Currently on the market with Adair Paxton, Newlaithes Manor offers its next inhabitants a comfortable and sympathetically ...
Kirkstall Abbey, founded 1152, was once home to hundreds of monks but was lost to ruin under Henry VIII’s dissolution of the ...
The latest book by local historian Martin Brisland explores Romsey's history, giving readers an insight into its storeyed streets.
2025 has only just begun, and a number of hit TV shows have already faced the chop from brutal bosses. Sky's Brassic, featuring Michelle Keegan, has been the latest show to be cancelled after an ...
On Belgian-Australian writer Simon Leys and his books on China. Plus Maoism: suicide and madness.
Wiltshire historian David Mitchell's fascination with the North Wessex Way began when he stumbled across a 400-year-old map in a book shop ... until the dissolution of the monasteries during ...
The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish state ...
When Gerald of Wales visited Kildare in the 12th century, he described the Gospel Book of Kildare as being ... it quenched the thirst of 17 more monasteries full of beer-loving saints and sinners.