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In the light of the financial appeal and campaign to help save Peterborough Cathedral – the city’s jewel in the crown, I dug into my archives and found images from more stable times.

A native of the Mediterranean region, the plant reached Britain early in the Christian era. Angles and Saxons gave it guttural names, which survived into modern times as 'golds' and 'rudds'. But the ...

Unlike the Sutton Hoo graves, the Prittlewell grave had never been looted by grave robbers, and it was excavated with modern techniques ... before some Anglo-Saxons fought as bodyguards in ...

New research by the University of Oxford has suggested Anglo-Saxons in early medieval society ... in 575 AD and fought against the Sasanians in modern-day Armenia and Syria. This offers a ...

Belgian colleagues kindly explained the basics of how modern societies work; I adhered to a rule of never engaging Americans ...

Good morning, teacher a chorus of Senegalese five-year-olds responded at a school where English has been introduced alongside ...

Children should stop being taught about the “greatness of the British Empire” as part of the Government’s curriculum shake-up ...

Even if war was not brewing, the Saxons were still a conquered people ... and it affected the rest of the development of Early Modern English, as well as other literary and political movements.

James Pogue is a contributing writer at New York Times Opinion, and he’s been covering the New Right at Vanity Fair. Over the ...