A corn mill in southern Scotland is one of six UK windmills and watermills to feature in a new set of stamps. The New Abbey site stopped working in the middle of the 20th Century but, after repair ...
On the morning of Friday 8 August, 50 years ago, The Beatles were photographed walking across a pedestrian crossing in London. The image of George Harrison, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr and John ...
The head of an abbey on a remote Welsh island has apologised for the “great suffering” endured by children who were abused by a late monk, and the “culture of secrecy and cover-up” that ...
None of her eight children survived her and she died, in poverty, on 9 March 1578 (New Style dating). Her grandson was James VI of Scotland and later James I of England. In the Abbey archives an order ...
Roger de Quincy, Earl of Winchester, constable of Scotland, was a benefactor to the building of Henry III's new Gothic Westminster Abbey, begun in 1245. His carved shield still remains in the south ...