Imagine a world in which no one cared about Shakespeare - that was the case in the 1600s, until four pioneering women ...

Westminster Abbey is officially recognising the central role played by The Shakespeare Ladies Club in reviving Shakespeare’s reputation and the campaign to erect a memorial to the writer in Poets’ ...

The grave in Poets' Corner was dug at night by the Abbey's Clerk of Works and on the following day, June 14th, at 9:30am three coaches arrived in Dean's Yard (to the south of the Abbey) with the ...

I wrote a column about the decline in the use of humble apostrophe. The Local Government Association, who possibly ...

Poems foreverMont BlancBy Percy Bysshe Shelley The everlasting universe of thingsFlows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves,Now dark—now glittering—now reflecting gloom—Now lending ...

A great concourse in Westminster Abbey cried “God save the Queen” as they watched the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Geoffrey Fisher, place on her head St. Edward’s Crown, symbol of British ...

John Andrews, a Carlsbad native, spent years teaching, leading programming at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., ...

Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton is thought to be in line to be the next Chief of Defence Staff. Members of the British armed forces parade on The Mall during a military procession to mark ...

When the then Catherine Middleton married Prince William on April 29 2011 at Westminster Abbey, she wore an A-line lace dress by the British designer Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen.

The future king of England shared a touching moment with his wife, Kate Middleton, as they prepared to exchange vows on the most important day of their lives ...

The Bible will go on public display in St Davids Cathedral’s treasury between June 17 and July 9. Credit: PA Images The Rt Rev Dorrien Davies, the Bishop of St Davids, said: "I first saw the ...