His coffin, made of wood enclosed in a lead coffin covered with purple velvet, lay in state in the Painted Chamber within the Palace of Westminster before burial in the Abbey on 14th February in a ...
ARCHBISHOPS have been very much in the news these past few weeks. York has conventionally had 98 of them, if you start counting from Paulinus in AD 627 who was in, reality, just a bishop (it wasn’t ...
ARCHBISHOPS have been very much in the news these past few weeks. York has conventionally had 98 of them, if you start counting from Paulinus in AD 627 who was in, reality, just a bishop (it wasn’t ...
St John The Baptist church, or St John on the Wall as it is commonly known in Bristol, was built within the old city walls and is steeped in history. We headed back into Nelson Street with Derek ...
The musicals and plays opening in Lancaster County theaters in February will take audiences to such varied eras as the early days of Christendom, 15th-century Paris, and Regency and Renaissance ...
The House of Medici was an Italian banking family that rose to become one of the most powerful political families … Continue ...
If you only have time for one cultural site, the Chapel of the Holy Cross should be it. This stunning church – designed by sculptor Marguerite Brunswig Staude (a student of architect Frank Lloyd ...
Target, meantime, promises “bonus content” from Henry, though it’s not clear if there are additional pages to the story, or other publisher-related extras. Previous Target exclusives have ...
Sometimes just one person changes things, like Henry VIII. When Henry was 18, he became King of England. He loved music, dancing and playing sports, like jousting and archery. But he got angry if ...
Peale's majestic portrait of founding father George Washington has headed to Versailles for a state-of-the-art restoration.
And now at the age of 91, Dame Joan Collins is taking on an even more controversial character: Wallis Simpson. The Hollywood ...
A 19th Century Methodist chapel that fell out of use as a place of worship and into disrepair will have a new life as a centre for education and events. Stoke-on-Trent's Bethesda Methodist Chapel ...
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