Rachel Morley explores how England's parish churches embody centuries of local communal memory and folk culture. Discover the secret lives of England's parish churches as they offer us a way to ...

Historian Kate Williams unravels the myths that surround some of history's most famous royal women amidst the historic setting of Westminster Abbey's Lady Chapel. Metres from the burial place of ...

He married, while Duke of York, Anne Hyde, a maid of honour to his sister, daughter of the future Lord Chancellor. They married in secret at Breda in 1659 and later publicly in London in 1660. She was ...

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BBC Radio 3's Choral Evensong programme celebrated its 100th anniversary with a special broadcast live from the Abbey on Wednesday 7 October. The service was sung by The Choir of Westminster Abbey ...

A memorial for Robert Hooke, one of the most brilliant and versatile of English scientists, was unveiled on 3rd March 2005 at Westminster Abbey. The stone is in the lantern area, near the grave of Dr ...

Judges and members of the legal profession gathered in Westminster Abbey on Thursday 1st October 2026 for a service to mark the start of the legal year in England and Wales. The annual service, which ...

Richard, the 'Lionheart', was born on 8th September 1157 at Oxford, son of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine. He joined the Third Crusade to the Holy Land but returned to England when he heard of his ...

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Elizabeth II, elder daughter of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth, was born in London on 21st April 1926. After the abdication of Edward VIII in 1936 her father, who was Duke of York, became King.