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No feasting. No drinking. No celebrations. Ian Morton explores w
One of the four major festivals on the Gaelic calendar (along with Samhain, Imbolc and Beltane), Lughnasadh is an ancient celebration of the first harvest, traditionally taking place at the end of Jul
200 years of Dickens on stage and screen
Danny Bird What made you decide to write about the collapse of the western Roman empire and the rise of Christianity? Alice Roberts I’ve long been fascinated by this historical period, especially in B
William Home and Robert Chamberlyn, the churchwardens of the parish of Wootton, near Woodstock in Oxfordshire, were summoned to appear at a church court in 1584. Their offence was that they had taken
FT has covered these a number of times, with one of the earliest and most disastrous examples taking place in Hammersmith in 1804 (see FT296:42-45, 310:30-35, 452:16-18). Then a semi-rural village on
In AD 897, Pope Formosus was put on trial for the crimes of perjury, coveting the papacy and violating canon law by holding more than one bishopric at a time. In truth, the whole thing was a spectacle
