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03

The Golden Age of Northumbria: Bede, Saints and Learning

  • By Matfen Hall
  • | Northumberland |

There was a time, long before Oxford and Cambridge, when the brightest minds in Europe looked north. In the eighth century, while much of the continent lay in shadow after the fall of Rome, a quiet brilliance flickered along the North Sea coast of England. In windswept monasteries at Wearmouth and Jarrow, monks copied books, calculated eclipses and wrote histories that would outlast kingdoms. This was the golden age of...

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Nov
14

Christianity At The Edge: Lindisfarne and St Cuthbert

  • By Matfen Hall
  • | Northumberland |

Few places in Britain carry their history as quietly yet as powerfully as the Holy Island of Lindisfarne. From the mainland, it appears as a low stretch of green framed by sea and sky, with a castle on its crag and the soft red ruins of an abbey at its heart. But when the tide withdraws and the causeway is revealed, the island draws travellers across like pilgrims. The noise...

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The Ancient Frontier – Walking Hadrian’s Wall

  • By Matfen Hall
  • | Northumberland |

In the far north of England, the land widens and empties until it feels almost limitless. Low hills roll into each other beneath a restless sky. Sheep graze between tumbled drystone walls, the air smells faintly of heather and rain. Here, silence has a texture - a hum of wind, an echo of something old. Then, out of that silence, you see it: a line of weathered stone running across...

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