But another nursery rhyme that may have a surprisingly dark past is “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary.” This English nursery rhyme ...

In 1984 the professor of history at the University of Warwick, J.J. (“Jack”) Scarisbrick, declared on the first page of The Reformation and the English People: “On the whole, English men and women did ...

The church is home to the grave of an RAF chief master mechanic ...

Mary Stuart's father reportedly predicted that the Scottish throne would end with a woman. But no one could have foreseen the ...

IVAN MARTIN explains the story behind the unusual name of this popular York pub ...

Anglicans face a looming choice about whether their global church family can stay united. This week, conservative leaders will meet in Nigeria where they are expected to debate a plan that ...

When the buds and showers of April appear, according to Geoffrey Chaucer, “thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages”. Dame Sarah Mullally is heading off a little earlier than Chaucer suggested, but ...

Leaders of numerous Anglican churches attend a religious service on the sidelines of their meeting of the Anglican Communion in Abuja, Nigeria, Wednesday, March 4, 2026.

March is St Piran’s Day, the feast day of the patron saint of Cornwall. But who was St Piran, and what do we know about him?

St Patrick’s Day celebrations will get under way this weekend both here in Northern Ireland, across the border and in the ...

The dance, really a marathon brining to mind the classic movie, “They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?”, has been going on as long as there have been governments and organized religion. That is to say that ...

As the Labour Government beavers away undermining our historic constitution – jury trials, hereditary peers, free speech rights – the Green Party has announced that it wants to go one better. If it ...