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

Charles Dickens tells the story of King Henry II and the enchantingly beautiful Rosamund Clifford.

Richard I thought a veteran Crusader and conqueror of Saladin could handle a few French peasants.

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

Henry VII must decide how to deal with a boy calling himself ‘King Edward VI’.

Anglo-Saxon poet Cynewulf imagines the farewell between Jesus and his Apostles, forty days after his resurrection.