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The Voyage of Sigurd

From The Saga of Edward the Confessor

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

Home from Home

By Goscelin of Canterbury

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

The Holy Table of St Sophia

By Émile Henri Carnoy

According to legend, when the Venetians tried to kidnap it the Holy Table of St Sophia in Constantinople made a dramatic escape.

‘I can walk’

By Clay Lane

A mother is determined to see that her disabled daughter gets the help she needs.

Our Lady’s Mantle

By Clay Lane

Shortly after Askold and Dir founded Kiev in 862, they launched a brazen but ill-fated assault on the capital of the Roman Empire.

Welcome to Micklegarth

By Orderic Vitalis

After the Norman Conquest, thousands of disappointed Englishmen departed for a new life in the Byzantine world.