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In this article, we'll explore some traditional Easter games from the past and how you can play them in and around your home this Easter.
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A Journey into Witchcraft Beliefs
The history of witchcraft is complex, and often raises more questions than it answers. Where did witches come from? And did they always arrive on broomsticks? We asked Professor Diane Purkiss to take us inside the minds of ordinary people and intellectuals in medieval and early modern England to reveal how the figure of the witch was born.
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Speaking with Shadows: Series 1 Episode 6
Speaking with Shadows is the podcast that listens to the people that history forgot. In our final episode, Josie Long explores the diverse and complex cultures of Birdoswald Roman Fort on Hadrian's Wall – once a meeting place for communities from across the Roman Empire.
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Divine Retribution at the Jewel Tower, Westminster
How the 14th-century monks of Westminster Abbey interpreted the ‘wretched death’ of their hated next-door neighbour, the Keeper of the Palace of Westminster, as celestially ordained.
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The history of Whitby Abbey, where a Benedictine abbey was founded after the Norman Conquest on the site of an important Anglo-Saxon monastery dating from the 7th century.
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Significance of Willowford Wall, Turrets and Bridge
This length of the Wall has produced much important information about the building of Hadrian’s Wall