Malmesbury Abbey in Wiltshire is one of the only English religious houses with a history lasting from the 600s to the ...

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One beautiful English abbey is hiding a rather dark history within its walls, and was once home to a murderous monk.

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Two men had a significant impact on Kirkstall Abbey’s existence. Henry the VIII ordered its dissolution in 1539. Thomas North ...

The inauguration mass for the 267th pope of the Roman Catholic Church took place in St. Peter's Square on Sunday, May 18 ...

Sumptuary laws limited many of the clothing items that the lower and middle classes could wear. Politics often played an ...

HILARY MANTEL was born in the little town of Glossop, in England’s Midlands, and grew up in two places that were even smaller: first Hadfield, Derbyshire, and then Romiley in Cheshire, where her ...

Under the reign of Henry VIII, the numbers of those ... and Oregon in 1919-20 reinstated the death penalty. In 1924, the first execution by cyanide gas took place in Nevada, when Tong war gang ...

Many of the biggest winners at the 2025 Tony Awards are still available to see in person during your next trip to the Big ...