Both Murder in the Cathedral and Becket remain fresh and vibrant. They feel like works for our times, and that may be because they are in fact works for all times. Another Henry, another Thomas ...

Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury, the most important bishop in England. In 1170, he was brutally murdered in Canterbury Cathedral. Historians have long debated whether his murder was on ...

From seven years in France, Thomas a Becket returned to England in uneasy peace with his king. Four weeks later he was murdered upon the altar of Canterbury Cathedral. The fabric of history ...

Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered as he conducted a service in the cathedral on 29 December 1170. The four knights who attacked him believed they were acting on the orders ...

After Thomas Becket's murder miracles were reported at his tomb and he was made a saint in 1174. This inspired one of the most famous pilgrimages in Christendom. Comments are closed for this ...

Following the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket in 1170 AD and his subsequent canonisation it became a place of pilgrimage. St Martin’s church and the ruins of St Augustine’s Abbey form the other ...