That’s the challenge facing Amanda Seyfried in The Testament of Ann Lee: portraying a working-class Mancunian accent from ...

In 1774, Lee – now also known as 'Mother Ann' – and a small group of followers sailed from Liverpool to start a Shaker church ...

In the opening essay, historian Keith Wrightson recounts an incident from mid-17th century Lancashire, in which a pair of watchmen confronted the occupants of an alehouse drinking late into the night ...

This thrillingly iconoclastic musical – from the makers of ‘The Brutalist’ – tells the story of the leading prophet of the 18th-century Shaker movement, who preached celibacy, rejected conformity and ...

Along with ritual immersion, John the Baptist called people to moral reform. His essential message, like the prophets of Israel before him, was one of repentance from sin in anticipation of God’s ...

Noor Inayat Khan’s language skills and training caught the attention of the Special Operations Executive, a secret British ...

As America approaches its 250th anniversary, the word liberty is resurfacing in cultural debates, but for Sight Sound CEO Joshua Enck, the word carries a deeper meaning, serving as the inspiration ...

A royal decree has appointed Sheikh Saleh Al-Maghamsi as an imam at the Prophet’s Mosque in Madinah, according to the Saudi Press Agency (SPA). Dr. Abdul Rahman Al-Sudais, head of religious affairs at ...

The Wuthering Heights revival has brought us many things: memories of our first encounter with a classic book; Margot Robbie in a major (and on-theme) red-carpet wardrobe; and a romantic beauty look ...

Archaeologists and students recently uncovered an 18th-century Catholic mission in Texas — a discovery that clarifies a key chapter in the early history of the Lone Star State. Excavators from Texas ...