For George Stephenson, the motto of the Stockton and Darlington
Railway was a code to live by.
Length: 118 words
Lives of the Saints
Cuthbert and Sheriff John
The Sheriff of Northumberland allows wealth and power to go
to his head — and his digestion.
Length: 60 words
Lives of the Saints
Cuthbert’s Box
Shortly before Easter, an ivory box went missing from the gifts
presented at the shrine of St Cuthbert.
Length: 119 words
County Durham
Sanctuary!
As late as the fifteenth century, criminals on the run could find
refuge in the precincts of England’s great churches.
Length: 116 words
County Durham
Poisoned Chalice
Scientist and clergyman Temple Chevallier believed that the fast pace
of recent discoveries in astronomy risked substituting a new superstition for an old one.
Length: 117 words
Discovery and Invention
The Vast Depths of Infinity
Thomas Wright offers his readers a way of thinking about the enormous distances
involved in any description of the solar system.