The history of seasons isn’t always what we think it is. Using the Australian summer as a baseline, when I was a child the Christmas cards a...

Yesterday I thought a lot of Janus. Christianity’s early rise as a major religion was strongly linked to the Roman Empire, so in the Jul...

January by the fireside – glass painting from Norwich, 1480-1500 (Image: Public Domain; source: Wikimedia Commons - see link here ) ...

I found several versions of Old Norse calenders when I was researching Vikings, and I found them fascinating. I used the old names of the m...