Schoolchildren have been taught that St Hadrian was black despite there being no evidence for the claim. The Dark Age abbot St Hadrian of Canterbury has been referred to as a “black scholar” in primar...
12.09.2023 Telegraph.co.uk and 1 sitesThe Holy Grail has occupied a central place in the Western imagination for millennia, whether as a sacred relic, a lost treasure, or an object of unattainable perfection. But the Grail did not begin a...
12.07.2023 Nationalgeographic.comAt the end of each year, I share a list of books I enjoyed reading during the calendar year. There is usually a combination of theology, cultural analysis, biography, and fiction. Hopefully some of th...
12.07.2023 Spamchronicles.com and 1 sitesIn a paper published in 1999, David M. Jacobson noted that the Greek name for Palestine – first entering the historical record in the writings of Herodotus in the fifth century B. C. E. – bore a strik...
12.06.2023 Timesofisrael.comAlthough New Zealand is about as far as you can get from Israel without bumping into the penguins, our local zealots are standing too close to the Palestinian tree to see the Arab forest. In their crusade to rid the world of Zionist colonisation, I like to point out, they’re actually siding with the largest and longest colonisation in history. Consider the origins of the two names: a Jew comes from the land of Judea; an Arab from the land of Arabia. Doesn’t that tell you who’s colonising whom in...
12.06.2023 Timesofisrael.comDomus Tiberiana, Rome’s great imperial palace, has reopened to the public after 50 years. This house on Palatine Hill, dominating the Forum below, was the Roman emperors’ assertion of their godlike st...
12.06.2023 Inews.co.uk and 1 sitesIn England's northernmost county, transport yourself back to the Kingdom of Northumbria, once the largest kingdom in the British Isles and a region with more than 70 castle sites to explore. It stretc...
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12.07.2023 Reportwire.orgA huge Christmas lights switch on took place on a Wallsend estate on Friday night in honour of a seven-year-old who has been diagnosed with a rare genetic and life-limiting illness. Hadrian Park Winte...
12.09.2023 Chroniclelive.co.ukThe representation of St Hadrian, a Dark Age abbot, in educational materials has sparked controversy as schoolchildren are now being taught he was black. There is, however, no historical evidence to substantiate this claim. St Hadrian is believed to ...
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