The Saxons named the town Dornwaraceaster (the suffix - ceaster being the Old English name for a "Roman town"; cf. Exeter and ...

Let us consider one theory about the origin of the Easter Bunny. In recent times, a popular theory is that the Easter Bunny ...

Wharfedale valley is one of the Yorkshire Dales and is made up of many towns and villages where All Creatures Great and Small ...

There are other European Easter traditions involving hares, including eating their meat and hunting them. One report from ...

Yorkshire, the largest historic county in England, is an area steeped in a rich tapestry of history, culture and natural beauty. From its Celtic origins to the Roman occupation, followed by the ...

The Spanish word for Easter is Pascua. In Italian, it’s Pasqua. French speakers have Pâques. All of these words derive from pascha —both Latin and Greek for Passover, the Jewish festival during which ...

A new website is bringing to light a long-overlooked body of poetry attributed to Merlin, revealing his role as a prophetic ...

These tend to be Celtic in origin, and include Cornish ... which has been spoken in Britain for thousands of years, long before the Anglo-Saxons ever brought English to England.

Celtic place names are very rare in London. Almost everything around us was named by the Anglo-Saxons or later Londoners. Only the Brent (and thereby Brentford), the Thames and the south London ...

George Bernard Shaw, Theodore Roosevelt, Andrew Carnegie and others have lobbied to reform English spelling. The language has ...

But over time we were invaded by various tribes from the Anglo-Saxons, from whom we inherited ... not forgetting our own native Celtic languages. From this mélange of languages grew modern ...