The 75th anniversary of VJ Day (Victory over Japan) will be recognised on Saturday 15 August 2020 commemorating the end of the Second World War. The end of hostilities came a matter of days after the bombing of the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. On the...
Our Fathers of Faith Often wishing that we’d asked more questions of a generation no longer with us to glimpse an insight into how lives were lived in a different time, a wonderful insight has been given into the lives of a one-time familiar presence within most of...
On 31 August 1869 the then Bishop of Beverley, Robert Cornthwaite, visited Tadcaster to open the new St Joseph’s Church. In 1878 he became the first Bishop of Leeds and on Saturday 31 August 2019 his successor and tenth Bishop of Leeds, Bishop Marcus, went to St...
The life of Sir Thomas Gascoigne (1745-1810), who resided at Parlington Hall and who was instrumental in establishing the Benedictine mission at Aberford, is the subject of what promises to be a fascinating talk being given by his biographer, Dr Alexander Lock, at...
An architect long associated with the Diocese of Leeds has recently received prestigious awards from the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Sebastian Rowe, from the Pearce Bottomley practice, based in Aberford near...
The annual York Catholic History Day takes place this year on Saturday 1 June at the Bar Convent Living Heritage Centre in York. As always, it is a great opportunity to discover more about Catholic history and to meet others from across Yorkshire and the North who...
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