❌

Reading view

'Lost' medieval castle found hiding inside university building in Dublin

One of Dublin's "lost" medieval castles has been found hiding in plain sight inside University College Dublin's Roebuck Castle. New research reveals that substantial remains of the Norman castle of Roebuck, an important fortress on one of the approach roads into the medieval city of Dublin, are preserved within the modern-day building.

  •  

Henry VIII's dissolution enforcer stashed Catholic manuscriptβ€”its lost pages have just been rediscovered

Sir John Gage, a key figure in Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries, saved a dangerous Catholic book from likely destruction, a new study suggests. The identification of six lost pages of a medieval bestsellerβ€”illicitly prized by Catholics in the Reformationβ€”as belonging to Gage, exposes the split loyalties of one of Tudor England's great survivors.

  •  
❌