Ryedale Folk Museum, in Hutton-le-Hole, is inviting people to join in the festivities on Bank Holiday Monday on May 6. The ...

A museum is set to celebrate May Day with a new maypole. Ryedale Folk Museum, in Hutton-le-Hole, is inviting people to join in the festivities on Bank Holiday Monday on May 6. The museum will be ...

Pope Francis said he’d support the Western and Eastern Churches using a common date for Easter. This year, both trad­itions ...

Catholic and Orthodox churches celebrate Easter on the same date, Sunday, April 20. This coincidence last occurred in 2017 ...

Ryedale Folk Museum is looking forward to sharing traditional May Day festivities on the coming Bank Holiday Monday, ...

Nostalgia surrounds traditional festivals, yet the reasons for their decline remain unexamined. Modern education, laziness, ...

Eventually, Protestant countries accepted the Gregorian calendar, though it took a long time — Great Britain adopted it only in 1752, nearly two centuries later. The Orthodox countries largely ...

However, to prevent any loss of tax revenue, the Treasury decided that the tax year starting on 25th March 1752 would last ... under the new Gregorian calendar, was not a leap year as it would ...