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Ok, we're not to Hadrian's Wall yet. Patience. Patience. Day 3: Edinburgh, part the third. Did you know that bagpipe renditions of Coldplay exist? I could have gone my entire life without knowing that. Sadly, it was blasting from a souvenir shop. Which...

Of all the major Reformers, John Knox is the one about whose early life we know the least – a fact that may come as a surprise since he wrote a History of the Reformation in Scotland.1 We cannot even be certain of the year in which he was born; it was...

England has had many monarchs – some lionized and almost deified, some derided as weak, or bad, or mad. Arguments over these kings rage still today – the verdict on Richard III, for example, has yet to be settled. But few have raised such ire as the...

According to Cardinal Reginald Pole the English Reformation was result of Henry VIII’s “fleshy will” and “carnal concupiscence”. It is easy to understand why the most powerful man in Mary Tudor’s Catholic England chose to attribute the rejection of...