On October 13th, 1399, Henry Bolingbroke was crowned King Henry IV of England in Westminster Abbey.

Scientist and clergyman Temple Chevallier believed that the fast pace of recent discoveries in astronomy risked substituting a new superstition for an old one.

As late as the fifteenth century, criminals on the run could find refuge in the precincts of England’s great churches.

King Edmund Ironside’s courageous defence of his crown against the invading Danes was undermined by treachery at home.

The invading Danes fought so fiercely that Edmund Ironside, the young English king, threw all caution to the wind.

Edmund Ironside, King of England, and Cnut the Great, King of Denmark, fought hand-to-hand for one of European history’s richest purses.