I recently went to the last town in the world that still speaks Old English and I was shocked by how much I could speak and understand. Well okay, it’s not exactly Old English, it’s a rare language ...

The word Halloween seems like a good place to start. The Christian holiday All Saints' Day has been celebrated on Nov. 1 for over a thousand years. Another word for "saint" is "hallow" — as in ...

If you’d like to enter a fell race, visit www.fellrunner.org.uk. All races are categorised, so you can pick one to suit your ...

An island main street at the ocean’s edge keeps trading, glowing with colour, craft and a whisper of Norse grit. In Orkney’s capital, Kirkwall, locals ...

The practice of placing swords upright in graves represents a powerful symbolic gesture. Unlike the more common Viking Age practice of ritually breaking or bending weapons before burial, these ...

Nicola Sturgeon and Irvine Welsh are among the names who will appear at the Aye Write literary festival in Glasgow, which ...

Renowned writers and the next generation of authors will take part in discussions and debates in some of Glasgow’s most ...

Sports curses are embedded in every major league storied franchise, so since it’s Halloween, let’s take a look at some of the ...

Nicola Sturgeon and Irvine Welsh are among the names who will appear at the Aye Write literary festival in Glasgow, which makes its return next week ...

What’s the weather like over there?” asks Anthony Hopkins as soon as our video call begins. He may have lived in California for decades but some Welshness remains, in his distinctive, mellifluous ...

In the riverside town of Vidin in Bulgaria, I was briefly king of the castle. I had the medieval citadel to myself. Looming ...

While most of the big storefronts have finished up their seasonal sales, it's now time for the GOG.com Autumn Sale. The best DRM-free games are now available with over 7,500 titles discounted. That ...