1. Line two baking trays with baking paper and preheat the oven to 180C/160C fan/ Gas Mark 6. 2. Add to a mixing bowl the flour, oats, ginger, bicarbonate of soda and butter, then rub in to resemble ...

Monarchs of Northumbria. Discover the story of the kings of Northumbria from Oswiu ( c. 654 – c. 670 AD ) to Ælla ( c. 862 – ...

From outrageous costumes to trick or treat: the unexpected ancient roots of Halloween's most popular – and most esoteric – ...

Asheville is home to one of the largest pagan communities in the South Local pagan groups have joined relief efforts after Helene Flooding in western North Carolina devastated the region After Helene ...

Samhain or Samhuinn, pronounced sow-wen, is the pagan precursor to Halloween, a festival honoring the end of the harvest, the onset of winter and the beginning of the “dark half” of the Celtic ...

Christians suffered after the Romans abandoned the place to pagan Anglo-Saxon invaders in the 5 th century. At the end of the 6th century, however, Pope St. Gregory the Great sent a monk from Rome ...

A "very unusual" gold pendant made by an early Anglo-Saxon in imitation of a Roman coin has been discovered by a detectorist.

The late 5th to early 6th Century pendant was created at a time when Anglo-Saxons were pagans, which was "slightly ironic", said coin expert Adrian Marsden. The find was discovered in a field near ...

The man went on to say, "God has a name and Hinduism is a wicked, pagan religion and it's completely incompatible with America." He "challenged" Ramaswamy to say who this God is. "Is it Waheguru ...

According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Canute travelled to Scotland in that year and a pilgrimage to the shrine of St Cuthbert would have been a politically and religiously important stop on the king ...