I recall once reading that the subject of the Industrial Revolution was like a well-squeezed orange. Not much juice left in it. Yet I constantly come across scholarship adding to what we know about ...

For almost 1,000 years, the English church grew up around its monasteries—a network of institutions that instructed the living, cared for the dying and prayed for the dead. Monasteries were locations ...

LEICESTER, United Kingdom – In 1535 there were around 850 monastic houses across England and Wales, by 1540 none remained. Shortly after his break with Rome, Henry VIII moved on the monastic ...

John Cooper receives funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council. “This house is rotten to the core,” snarls Jack Barak, Thomas Cromwell’s man of business, as he condemns the Benedictine ...

In its heyday, streams of daylight would have shone through its magnificent stained glass windows. That was until Fountains Abbey, in Ripon, North Yorkshire, became one of the many victims of Henry ...