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 ...

Oliver Postgate (of Bagpuss fame) and Naomi Linnell (from Canterbury Cathedral Library) created this 15.5 metre cartoon frieze in the 1980s to tell the story of Thomas Becket. They took ...

On 29 December 1170, Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, was brutally murdered in his cathedral by four knights of his King and one-time friend, Henry II. In the space of ten years, a close ...

A service will be held in Canterbury Cathedral to mark the anniversary of the martyrdom of one of England's most famous saints. Thomas Becket, the Archbishop of Canterbury, was murdered as he ...

The fact that Chaucer wrote in English (now referred to as Middle English), rather than French or Latin like many of his fellow writers, meant that ordinary folk could enjoy the Canterbury Tales ...

Murder in the Cathedral is a story about Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, and his struggles against temptation and personal vanity prior to his murder in the great Cathedral.