By Thomas Bainbridge By the early Middle Ages, the schisms that are so common within Christianity had led to a wide divergence of practices and doctrines.… Read More »Realignment with Rome: How the Date of Easter was Decided at Whitby in 664
By Crasterfarian I’ve written a couple of pieces lately on the Golden Age of Northumbria, and I’m trying to stitch it all together into a series… Read More »Oswald: From The Cross to The Ash Tree
By Thomas Bainbridge The Wear, from its source below the granite gaze of the Pennines, flows languidly to the east and north for sixty miles, watering… Read More »Vedra: The Ancient Name of the River Wear
By Thomas Bainbridge Saint Hilda (614 – 680) was a Derian Princess, connected through blood to the great dynasties of Anglo-Saxon Britan: She grew up amid… Read More »Saint Hilda: The Princess Who Shaped the Northumbrian Church
By Thomas Bainbridge History is replete with great figures who, without the exertions of an ardent biographer, have been doomed to obscurity. Godric of Finchale would… Read More »Merchant, Pirate, Pilgrim, Saint: The Remarkable Life of Godric of Finchale
By Thomas Bainbridge Numerous theories abound as to how the Southern States of America obtained the name “Dixieland”. The most obvious is that they lie to… Read More »Durham’s Jeremiah Dixon and the Line That Shaped America
By Crasterfarian A ‘Mammy Joan’s Story’ Craster 1942 One of my greatest pleasures is to sit with my mam and talk. We talk about everything —… Read More »When the Mattress Went Wavy
By Thomas Bainbridge It is a curious observation that the elegance and refinement of Georgian manners contrasted so heavily with the brutality of the criminal code.… Read More »Jobling: Gibbetted at Jarrow and Buried on the Black Middens
By Crasterfarian I’ve written a few pieces lately on my interpretation of events in Bernicia around 630 AD, or “The Golden Age of Northumbria” as it… Read More »When Wyrd is Woven
By Thomas Bainbridge Saint Aidan of Lindisfarne (d. 651) is a seminal figure in Northumbrian history. Born most likely in rural Ireland, Aidan became a monk… Read More »An Irish Monk and Northumbrian Saint: The Story of Aidan
