J. R. R. Tolkien was a poet at heart. Charmed by the sound of language, he was influenced by everything from the poem The ...
There is a great deal of cynicism about Ulster Scots among unionists. Many consider it a desperately contrived counterweight ...
A group of friends using metal detectors in Somerset stumbled on a buried hoard containing 2,584 medieval coins. Called the Chew Valley Hoard, the coins date from the years around the Norman Conquest ...
Today’s debates over immigration and assimilation have their roots in patterns of settlement that go back centuries.
Thousands of Afrikaners, descendants of the first European settlers in South Africa, celebrated on Tuesday the "Day of the ...
The UK is building its first inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH) following UK ratification of the 2003 UNESCO ...
In 2021, the headmaster of Dover College, a private school on the English south coast, began boasting in promotional ...
She hated me, she hated Julie Andrews,” was Dick Van Dyke’s blunt assessment of PL Travers in the wake of Walt Disney’s ...
A mass grave found on the grounds of St. John’s College at the University of Oxford in 2008 presented a medieval mystery. Could the dead have been victims of a notorious massacre a thousand years ago?
Back in 2018, President Donald Trump disputed having used the epithet "shithole" to describe some countries whose citizens ...
He is descended from Russian Jews—you know, the kind of people who were once denounced as alien and unassimilable. Today, his ...
The reality TV celebrity turned left-wing podcaster Jennifer Welch is fed up with President Trump. She also expects better from the Democrats.