Just before dawn a moon like a burning orange balloon appears, its reflection gilding our pilgrim path across the sands to Holy Island, Northumbria. I cry out in delight and start describing this luminous beauty into my microphone — we have been tasked with finding hope and wonder in the depths of the darkest year, … Read more
Just before dawn a moon like a burning orange balloon appears, its reflection gilding our pilgrim path across the sands to Holy Island, Northumbria. I cry out in delight and start describing this luminous beauty into my microphone — we have been tasked with finding hope and wonder in the depths of the darkest year, … Read more
Written aboard HMS Victory, the letter on yellowing parchment offers a glimpse into the mind of one of our greatest national heroes. Admiral Horatio Nelson penned the missive to a slave-owning plantation owner in the West Indies just four months before he was fatally wounded at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. Little did Nelson … Read more