Historical Fiction and Fantasy, Young Adult Fiction, Book Reviews and ruminations on life
29
Mar
Easter is upon us. It is of course the greatest of the Christian festivals, celebrating the death and resurrection of Christ. In most of the non English speaking world the word used for this festival is one form or another is “Passover”. For of course the death of Christ occurred at the time of the Passover and the Apostle Paul even refers to this […]
Tags: Anglo Saxons, easter
7
Mar
Today Birmingham is of course the second largest city in the UK. Home to 1 million people and part of a huge conurbation of several million, its size and growth owes much to the Industrial Revolution for here and in the nearby Black Country many of the goods that helped build the British Empire were manufactured and certainly most […]
Tags: Anglo-Saxon, Birmingham