We know King James I of England primarily through his name being attached to the King James Version of the Holy Bible, which ...

The Legal History of the Church of England: From the Reformation to the Present ...

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There are many medieval ruins scattered throughout England and the landscape is full of crumbling abbeys that were left to ...

The Augustinian Priory was built in the 12th and 13th centuries and destroyed on the orders of Henry VIII during the Reformation – the order for the monastic site to be dissolved was signed on ...

Over the past decade, the term New Apostolic Reformation (NAR) has become a buzzword in certain Christian circles, often used as a pejorative label by left-leaning reporters, theologians, ...

If the 1548 iconoclasm plunged into “deserved oblivion the monuments of popery”, it has in turn become a subject, like some embarrassing family skeleton, never to be mentioned. Print copy ...

Correctly, she places religion at the heart of her story. The Peasants’ War was “the giant trauma” at the centre of the Reformation, which had started less than a decade earlier, she writes.

He was the first Tudor monarch, the king who vanquished Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth Field. So when Henry VII died in 1509 after suffering from gout and asthma, he was fittingly buried in ...

Henry VII died on April 21, 1509 after suffering from gout and asthma. He was born in Pembroke Castle in 1457 and was raised by his mother and uncle, with his father dying before his birth.

Customers have been left devastated as one of Britain's oldest pubs has called time for good after serving customers for 570 years. The Abbot's Fireside in Elham, near Canterbury, Kent, has ...