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King unveils replica of Anglo-Saxon Kirkdale sundial at British Museum
2+ day, 6+ hour ago (390+ words) Friday 11 September 2026 Freya de Lisle, a stonemason at York Minster, applies the finishing touches to the sundial THE King and the French President, Emmanuel Macron, unveiled a replica of the historical Kirkdale sundial, made by York Minster’s team of craftspeople,…...
Book review: The Black Death: A global history by Thomas Asbridge
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (285+ words) Friday 05 June 2026 G. R. Evans considers the long shadow cast by the Black Death THE author describes his own experience of catching Covid, the 21st-century plague, as having given him an understanding of the personal impact of such an infection and the…...
Book review: The Magic Books: A history of enchantment in 20 medieval manuscripts by Anne Lawrence-Mathers
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (417+ words) Friday 08 May 2026 Nicholas Orme on the Middle Ages and magic Magic sat uneasily alongside religion. Everyone agreed that the planets and stars exerted an influence on the world. The study of astrology was necessary in medicine, for example, to explain…...
Abandoned Georgian-era children remembered with handcrafted tokens
4+ mon, 5+ day ago (498+ words) Friday 08 May 2026 They are on display in an exhibition at Quebec House in Westerham SCHOOLCHILDREN in Kent have honoured the memory of abandoned Georgian-era children with handcrafted tokens in an exhibition at Quebec House in Westerham. Known as the birthplace…...
Book review: The Discovery of Britain: An accidental history by Graham Robb
7+ mon, 1+ week ago (403+ words) Friday 06 February 2026 Ian Bradley considers British history in brief Robb recalls from his own Church of England primary school “the soul-withering tedium of the vicar’s half-hour, or more to the point, one-thousand-eight-hundred-seconds-long homilies”, and he has a long section towards…...
Medieval bones finally ready for reburial at Winchester Cathedral
7+ mon, 4+ week ago (603+ words) Wednesday 14 January 2026 Painstaking Mortuary Chests Project proves ‘highly significant’ in fields of archaeology, history, and genetics One of the mortuary chests in the cathedral IT HAS taken over a decade of painstaking work, but 1300 bones ascribed to early medieval bishops…...