the Venerable Bede
Christianity in England is dying – and our national identity with it
The self, not society, has begun to matter most to people, with the collective life threatened by ragged bands of individualists lacking a sense of history and burdened by the mere present
The English were never an overtly religious lot
Undeterred, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a breezy tour of the nation’s religious history, from the Venerable Bede to the present
Venerable father of English history
It might seem to some a bold move to base a book on any kind of journey at all when…
