For George Stephenson, the motto of the Stockton and Darlington Railway was a code to live by.

The Sheriff of Northumberland allows wealth and power to go to his head — and his digestion.

Shortly before Easter, an ivory box went missing from the gifts presented at the shrine of St Cuthbert.

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

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

Thomas Wright offers his readers a way of thinking about the enormous distances involved in any description of the solar system.