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Lost copy of seventh-century poem in Old English discovered at Rome library

Dublin scholars find 1,200-year-old manuscript of Caedmon’s Hymn composed by Northumbrian cattle herder

The Guardian - UK

Where tourists seldom tread, part 14: three English towns form the unlikely end of the Silk Road

If you can’t make it to Samarkand or Xian, visit Jarrow, Lichfield or Southend at the other end of the historic trading route

The Guardian - UK

A smoking quill? Notes in Bible margin could be handwriting of the Venerable Bede

Annotations in eighth-century manuscript point to work of revered English monk, scholar and saint

The Guardian - UK

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Dame Rosemary Cramp obituary

Archaeologist who led excavations at the twin monastery of Monkwearmouth-Jarrow, home to the Venerable Bede

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Curious Kids: who was the first person to speak English?

Who was the first person to speak English? – Grace, aged eight, Belfast, Northern Ireland

The Conversation

Vince Rea obituary

Other lives: Founder and director of the Bede gallery, Jarrow, and pioneer of contemporary art in Tyneside

The Guardian - UK

DNA study sheds light on Scotland's Picts, and resolves some myths about them

The people known as the Picts have puzzled archaeologists and historians for centuries. They lived in Scotland during the early medieval period, from around AD300 to AD900, but many aspects of their society remain mysterious.

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Why does the date of Easter change every year?

Easter can fall on any Sunday between March 22 and April 25. The date took millennia to standardize for surprisingly complex reasons.

LiveScience

The distressing things nurses on the picket line told us about the pressure they face

'The more nurses that are available, the more funding that we put in - less people are going to die'

Wales Online

Jarrow Anglo-Saxon village 'in desperate need of repair' to be restored thanks to £250k grant

The money is coming from The National Lottery Heritage Fund to restore the reconstructed Anglo-Saxon village at Jarrow Hall Museum, in South Tyneside

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Sacred hares, banished winter witches and pagan worship – the roots of Easter Bunny traditions are ancient

The Easter Bunny is a much celebrated character in American Easter celebrations. On Easter Sunday, children look for hidden special treats, often chocolate Easter eggs, that the Easter Bunny might have left behind.

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Keeping time: The history, origin and meanings of B.C. and A.D.

The use of "anno domini" and "before Christ" to mark time began in the early days of Christianity, when clerics needed to know when Easter would fall.

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