Clearly, their own pagan Gods had forsaken them. Patrick readily obliged, and immediately they came across a herd of wild boar. They killed many and feasted for two days, before continuing their ...

There’s only threads of what paganism was like here, but from those threads, we’re trying to reimagine the place.’ Typically, Catriona and Múlú will source the songs, which are then reworked into ...

Pagans is the exciting new debut novel by James Alistair Henry, the writer behind smash hit comedies including Green Wing, Smack the Pony and Sean the Sheep, to name but a few. James Alistair Henry ...

As you’re celebrating the sunny season with domestic cleanses, painted eggs, and frenzied grappling matches over beer barrels, you might begin to wonder where these rituals came from.

Who invented Christmas? Historian Lucy Worsley traces the roots of Christmas by exploring the Anglo-Saxon tradition, wassailing where people sing to the apple trees to celebrate the winter ...

Policy had vacillated through the fourth century. The emperor Julian had been a pagan, hostile to Christianity. Julian’s successor, Jovian, restored the faith and ruled for toleration, including for ...