Christopher Howse

6 days ago | msn.com | Christopher Howse

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6 days ago | telegraph.co.uk | Christopher Howse

In 1585 a law made it treasonable for Jesuits or priests ordained abroad to be in England. By the end of 1586 only 130 of the 300 priests who had returned to England from seminaries abroad were still at liberty. Some died in prison, 33 had been martyred, 50 were in prison and about 60 had been banished or had fled abroad before being discovered. Yet the "Mission" to England was not wiped out. By 1596, 300 priests were labouring in England, and by 1610 as many as 400.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Nick Duerden |Miranda Levy |Pete Wedderburn |Christopher Howse

Find your tribeIn the small neighbourhood park I'd previously blithely ignored, I found endless drama and incident, and fell in with people who were young and old, and from every conceivable background, each eager to connect.

1 week ago | telegraph.co.uk | Christopher Howse

Thanks to the commitment of its residents, it has narrowly escaped the desolation of other post-industrial townsWhitehaven is a town by the sea but not a seaside town. The first designed town in England since the Middle Ages, it was built in the 1660s. Its strong character captivated me in a way no town has for years. Holidaymakers do not flock here but to the Lake District a few miles inland.

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Christopher Howse

I was wondering whether to pay a visit to Nicaea (now Iznik, in Turkey) for the 1700th anniversary of a momentous event there, but I was a bit put off by its not having a railway station. Luckily the good fathers who gathered there in 325 were not so easily deterred. I suppose they travelled by horse, mule or foot from Constantinople, though a ship would have helped across the Sea of Marmara, or the Propontis as it was then known.