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by Toni Mount

So how did folk keep warm without central heating, hot water on tap and modern clothing like padded down jackets? In this article, author Toni Mount discusses what winter was like over 600 years ago.

By Joanna Foat, novelist, historian and expert on the Women’s Timber Corps 
Summer 1940. As bombs fell over London, another battle was raging deep within Britain’s forests. A war few men believed women were strong enough to fight... 
But those men had never met the World War II women known as the Lumberjills before! I discovered these were incredibly inspiring, strong ...

By Calogero Nicosia

In the early eighth century, a Northumbrian monk sat down to write the history of the English Church. Bede was a careful scholar and a devout Christian, and his Ecclesiastical History of the English People (731) is the story of how the English turned from idols to Christ. Yet in the first book, when he introduces Hengist and Horsa, the...