The English “can trace their roots back over generations” and have a history which is “the legacy of our collective identity” ...

Plans for a new 20-metre-high telecoms mast on Wearside have been submitted to council development bosses. Sunderland City ...

Claims that Easter is rooted in pagan worship—especially of a goddess named Ishtar—are common but largely unfounded. This video breaks down the only historical reference to the Anglo-Saxon goddess ...

The message originally written in Italian reads: “Miserando atque eligendo (Having mercy on him, he chose him). With these words of the Venerable Bede, Pope Francis reminded us that the Lord’s call is ...

Grimm was inspired by the 8th-century writings of the Venerable Bede, which refer to an Anglo-Saxon goddess named Eostre whose festival was celebrated in the spring.

Primary school Benedict Biscop CE Academy, close to Venerable Bede, is also part of the Trust. It was inspected in the Autumn term and received an “Outstanding” rating in all areas of the ...

Bede was referring to daylight hours, between sunrise and sunset. Considering that the length of daylight hours depended on the duration of the day, which varied according to the season, and that each ...

Born in Gżira Vella, the son of Emmanuel Vella and Filomena née Borg was educated at St Aloysius College, the Seminary, the Venerable Bede English College, Rome, and the Gregorian Ponti-fical ...

Bede was so influential for later Christians that the name stuck, and hence Easter remains the name by which the English, Germans and Americans refer to the festival of Jesus’ resurrection.

The Venerable Bede, a monk and historian, wrote that Anglo-Saxon King Rædwald, who died in 625 AD, built a temple which contained altars to both Christ and pagan gods.

An Anglo-Saxon complex which contains the remains of a 1,400-year-old royal hall is twice as big as originally thought, say archaeologists. The compound, near Sutton Hoo at Rendlesham in Suffolk ...