Archdeacon and diplomat Peter of Blois was a frequent guest at the laden tables of King Henry II, but he had little appetite for the fare on offer.

Back in the eleventh century English refugees founded New York, but it wasn’t in North America.

In Constantinople, capital of the Roman Empire, a man from Kent founded a glittering church for English refugees.

Orderic Vitalis regrets the passing of a society far more refined and advanced than that which supplanted it.

When the Normans came in 1066 they deliberately destroyed English chant, the last survivor in Western Europe of a tradition five centuries old.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle looks back on the reign of King William I.