Christmas is a Christian celebration of the birth of Christ, though it also encompasses Greek, Roman and pagan traditions of giving gifts and feasting around the Winter Solstice. It is a time when ...

The tiny village where I was born and the town by the sea where I used to live aren’t exceptional in the attention paid to bell-ringing. In fact, they are part of a long and revered tradition, that of ...

A forgotten copy of Shakespeare’s famous Sonnet 116 was found tucked away in a 17th-century manuscript in the Oxford Library.

While flipping through 17th-century manuscripts at the University of Oxford’s Bodleian Libraries, researcher Leah Veronese ...

Step into a timeless journey with 'We Three Kings,' a classic Christmas carol that tells the story of the Magi's quest to find the newborn Jesus.

The song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol. From 1558 until 1829, Roman Catholics in England were not permitted to practice their faith openly.

The recently discovered copy of Sonnet 116 "reads as a political love song" during England's Civil Wars, according to the ...

As I step inside, I get immediately transported back to my childhood. Children as tall as my hips chasing each other, ...

City Lit Theater has announced its programming for the 2025-26 season, the company’s 45th. The season will have a strong ...

An Oxford researcher found a rare, handwritten variation of one of Shakespeare’s most famous love poems. About 400 years ago, ...

Researchers said the added lines "potentially transform" the sonnet from "a meditation on romantic love into a powerful ...