One week into a Lenten retreat with the Bishop of Hexham, a boy’s miserable life is turned right around.

By the early eighth century, sacred art was thriving in newly-Christian England, but in the East seeds of doubt and confusion had been sown.

It started as an honest mistake, became a diplomatic standoff, and brought down an Empire.

Charles Dickens believed that Britain’s Saxon invaders gained power by force of arms – but not by weapons.

Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf paints a word-picture of heaven and the seraph-band that swoops and soars before the throne.

Wonder spread through a Tyneside monastery after Bishop Cuthbert asked for a drink of water.