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Pearl of Great Price
Apr 22, 20213 min read
Apr 23 St George, Windsor and the Order of the Garter
Recently many British Royal Weddings and Funerals have occurred in St Georges Chapel in Windsor, outside of London. It is also the home...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 16, 20214 min read
Apr 16 Culloden and the Highland Clearances
The Battle of Culloden was the last major battle fought on British soil. It was the end of the Jacobite Uprising and the killed the final...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 13, 20213 min read
Apr 14 The Founding of Poland
Conservative thinkers often refer to 'the estate of marriage' - as providing a stabilising influence on society. Today we remember how...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 6, 20213 min read
Apr 7 Richard The Lionheart
Today in 1199 King Richard I, the "Lionheart," died at the age of 41 in the arms of his mother in France, and thus "ended his earthly...
Pearl of Great Price
Apr 2, 20214 min read
Apr 3 Richard of Chichester
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 31, 20214 min read
Mar 31 John Donne : Pre-eminent Metaphysical Poet
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 31, 20214 min read
Mar 30 Thomas Cranmer and the English Reformation
Today in 1533 Thomas Cranmer was consecrated as the Archbishop of Canterbury in Westminster, London . Todays pod looks at his unlikely...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 28, 20214 min read
Mar 29 The Foundling Hospital in London
Today we remember how Thomas Coram, an English naval captain started the Foundling Hospital for abandoned children in 1751 in London....
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 18, 20213 min read
Mar 20 Death of Cuthbert in Lindisfarne
Today we go back to year 687 and travel to Lindisfarne in the North of England and remember the life of St Cuthbert who died today....
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 15, 20213 min read
Mar 15 Cardinal Manning & Catholic Social Teaching
Today in 1875, Henry Edward Manning was made a cardinal at a consistory convoked by Pope Pius IX, and unusually for Cardinals in the...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 13, 20213 min read
Mar 14 Dr Livingstone I Presume
On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1871 and travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa where today the...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 3, 20212 min read
Mar 4 Williams Penn's Holy Experiment - Philadelphia and Pennsylvania
Today in 1681, King Charles II handed over a large piece of his North American land holdings to William Penn in order to pay off debts to...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 2, 20211 min read
Mar 2 The Death of John Wesley
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...
Pearl of Great Price
Mar 2, 20212 min read
Feb 28 Victorian Slum Priest Charles Lowder
Today we go back to year 1855 and the founding of the Society of the Holy Cross in Soho, London, by six Anglican priests lead by Charles...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 27, 20212 min read
Feb 27 Keir Hardy, Methodism and the Labour Party
Its 1900, London. where the Trades Union Congress and the Independent Labour Party met, to form a Labour Representative Committee. This...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 22, 20211 min read
Feb 23 Handel's Messiah
Today we remember the birth of : George Frederick Handel, composer of the oratorio "Messiah," which is now one of the best-known and...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 20, 20211 min read
Feb 20 Frederick Douglass
The story of a slave, who learned to read and write by reading the Bible, and when he escaped became one of the greatest campaigners for...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 12, 20211 min read
Feb 13 The Glencoe Massacre
Today we look at the brutal killing of an estimated 30 members of the MacDonald Clan by the Earl of Argyll's Regiment. Made an example...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 9, 20211 min read
Feb 9 Unexploded Bomb in Genoa Cathedral
Today in 1941 a targeting error by a gunnery officer on board a British warship some thirteen miles offshore caused an armour-piercing...
Pearl of Great Price
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Feb 8 Anti slavery Quaker Benjamin Lay
Todays marks the death of remarkable man, Benjamin Lay. I am not aware of any other 4ft hunchback who has changed the world in quite the...
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