Exploring England’s Other Cathedrals – A feature by Paul Jeffery

In turning what began as a fascinating idea into the reality of a book I have visited or revisited almost all of the ‘other cathedrals’. Some seemed like old friends; others were new to me. Most rewarding in architectural and artistic terms have been those medieval churches fully of cathedral size and splendour and still [...]

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England’s Other Cathedrals – A feature by Paul Jeffery

England’s great medieval cathedrals are its finest buildings and among its greatest works of art. At their head are such supreme examples as Canterbury, Durham, Lincoln, Wells and York, but all are magnificent and famous. However, alongside these cathedrals, there are or were many further comparable great churches – some actually of cathedral status, some [...]

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England’s Other Cathedrals – An illustrated guide to over 100 English churches

The greatest of England’s cathedrals are widely considered the country’s finest and most magnificent buildings. Few people realise, however, that in addition to these outstanding buildings there are many others that share, or once shared, some of that greatness. England’s Other Cathedrals is an illustrated guide to these magnificent and important buildings, many of which [...]

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History Press author Barney Sloane interviewed on Channel 4 News

As a result of The Guardian article on the 18th of August and new research into the cause of the Black Death, Barney Sloane last night appeared in a Channel 4 News feature titled Using DNA to trace the cause of the Black Death. New genetic analysis of 100 remains has found bacterium that shows [...]

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The Black Death in London – by Barney Sloane

The Black Death was one of the most devasting and vile plagues in recorded history, largely believed to be spread by rats it claimed the lives of over 50% of the European population. However, as Maev Kennedy of The Guardian writes today, Barney Sloane says that evidence shows the Black Death was actually carried by [...]

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Unearthing London by Simon Webb

Ancient London Calling Unearthing London is the city nobody knows, a vast and intricate network of hilltop shrines, tracks, sacred rivers, mounds, ditches, enclosures and manmade hills, all well over 2000 years old.  This prehistoric landscape, moulded and shaped by early men and women, determined the position of landmarks such as St Paul’s Cathedral, the [...]

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Roman Gloucestershire

If asked to pick a Roman town in Britain, what would come to mind first? Bath with its spas? The Verulamium at St Albans? Perhaps London itself, originally founded by the Romans as Londinium. Maybe the town of York, the place where Constantine was proclaimed emperor? Very few would highlight the towns of Roman Gloucestershire. [...]

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