Richard Challoner would become the leading figure of English Catholicism for the greater part of the eighteenth century. He was bright...

Today in 1934 Bill Wilson was lying in Charles B. Towns Hospital for Drug and Alcohol Addictions in New York City under the care of Dr....

Today we remember how 6 members of the choir from Holy Trinity Church in Bordsley, Birmingham, decided to form a football club so as to...

Today we remember how the wife of C.S. Lewis died from cancer. Clive Staples Lewis was ranked eleventh on the Times newspaper list of...

Today we travel to the Bahamas and remember the death of Sir John Mark Templeton at the age of 95. The year before he died, Templeton...

In 1833 the young Anglican priest John Henry Newman, while traveling on a ship from Italy to France, wrote the words to the hymn, “Lead...

Rev Henry Sacheverell had become famous in England for preaching an incendiary sermon on the 5 November. In his impeachment trial by the...

Today we look at the remarkable story of William Booths life, how he emerged from a poor family - in the harsh landscape of a rabidly...

Today we go back to 1253 where we remember the death of Richard of Chichester. An interesting figure who stood out for his loyalty and...

Today we remember the birth of John Donne in 1572, considered now to be the preeminent metaphysical poet of his time. A group that also...

Today in 1791 we remember the death of John Wesley in London. An Anglican priest and theologian, he was described as the best-loved man...

Today in 1302, we remember how the Italian poet Dante Alighieri was exiled from Florence. In exile Date wrote the celebrated work The...

Today in 1897 we remember an amazing discovery in ancient rubbish dump near Oxyrhynchus, in Egypt. Two English archaeologists, Bernard...