Religion Category
The Book of Common Prayer
The successive 1549, 1552, 1559, 1604 and 1662 editions of The Book of Common Prayer illustrate the struggle…
Church Choirs
Many of the UK’s cathedrals have their own schools in which boys and sometimes girls are trained…
Sunday Schools
During the Industrial Revolution of the 18th and 19th centuries, multitudes of children worked in factories from…
Zoroastrianism
The originally Persian religion of Zoroastrianism does not easily take converts, so it has one of the…
Dissolution of the Monasteries
One result of establishing the Church of England was the Dissolution of the Monasteries in England and…
Thomas Cranmer
Nottinghamshire-born Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556) enrolled at Cambridge University aged 14 and remained there for more than two…
Monasteries
The monastic movement came to the British Isles in the 6th century. The remote settings of monasteries,…
The Oxford Movement
Amidst the inclination for reform prevalent in the 1830s, some Oxford scholars of theology reacted strongly to…
Ely Cathedral
The exquisite workmanship seen in the structure of Ely Cathedral exhibits the now rare manual skills that…
Durham Cathedral
Durham Castle and Durham Cathedral sit side-by-side on a peninsula off the River Wear that looks tailor-made…
The Holy Island of Lindisfarne
The tidal 3-mile-wide island of Lindisfarne sits off the sandy Northumberland coast. Its mile-long causeway is revealed…
Stained glass church windows
Two Northumbrian clergymen, Wilfrid (634-709/10) and Benedict (c.628-90), adopted the European idea of having stained glass church…