Many place names in Oxfordshire date back to the eighth century, but do you know the original names ... in 1086 - while ...

Here are some of the Old English names for places around Oxfordshire: The name “Oxford” comes from the Old English Oxenaforda, meaning “ford of the oxen”. This refers to a shallow crossing in the ...

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word ...

While Easter is now fondly known for egg hunts, the Easter bunny and yummy hot cross buns, the celebration has taken many forms over time.

Michkov has surpassed all expectations in Year 1 amid some trying circumstances. The Flyers have a budding star to build ...

I desired dragons with a profound desire,” fantasy writer J.R.R. Tolkien once said about his childhood imagination, ...

Last year, for my birthday, my wife gave me a copy of “ I Remember ,” an unusual memoir by the artist Joe Brainard. It’s a ...

As the 2025 English season kicked off under blue skies on Friday, the Victoria quick O'Neill wasn't the only Australian ...

[1] In 7th century Britain, before English was even ... King Alfred the Great and Archbishop Aelfric worked on Anglo-Saxon (Old English) translations. After the Norman conquest of 1066, a need ...

1987 — Julius Erving of the Philadelphia 76ers becomes the third player to score 30,000 points in his pro career. Erving scores 38 points to join Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Jeff Probst celebrated 25 years of Survivor at the American Cinematheque's "This Is Not a Fiction" festival on April 13. CBS' ...

Symington Family Estates, producers of some of the finest Ports in the world for five generations and owners of the ...