ORIGINS: “DECK THE HALLS” – THE HISTORY OF CHRISTMAS DECORATIONS
In an Origins special, ANNE LAWRENCE-MATHERS, professor of medieval history of the University of Reading, looks at – in an article first piublished on The Conversation – where Christmas decorations come from…
New analysis of bones may shed new light on Christianity’s origins in Scotland
A study of human bones found in a mass burial ground in south-west Scotland could reveal whether Christianity had a foothold in the country before the arrival of St Columba in the middle of the 6th century. While there is already some evidence of a major Christian settlement in the Whithorn area of Scotland – […]