“The underground galleries, organs of the large city, would function like those of the human body, without revealing themselves to the light of day. Pure and fresh water, light, and heat would ...

Tyburn Nuns to open chapel at foundress' birthplace The Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre at Maison Garnier, birthplace of their foundress, Servant of God Marie--Adèle Garnier. Photo ...

Members of the Adorers of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Montmartre OSB process during the December 2 Mass for the opening of the sainthood cause of Mother Marie Adele Garnier at the Tyburn Convent in ...

On November 3, 1783, the last public execution took place at Tyburn Gallows in London, when John Austin was hanged for highway robbery. From the hanging of William Fitz Osburn in 1196 until Austin’s ...

They cut ties with family and friends, deny themselves material possessions, take a vow of silence and rarely set foot in the outside world. But, as Carlotta Maitland Smith discovers, the nuns of ...

Historians have detailed how more than a century ago, dozens of canals and rivers used to flow right across London, many of which are now plunged to the depths of history. From St Pancras to ...

When the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops launched the annual Fortnight for Freedom in 2012, they knew that several martyrs’ feasts or memorials were on the calendar from June 21 to July 4 ...

In 1783, the highwayman and footpad John Austin was found guilty and sentenced to death for murdering labourer John Spicer from Kent. He was brought from Newgate Prison to the Tyburn gallows (close to ...

The Johannesburg-based artist Michele Mathison makes symbolic play with the potential and the potential plenty of southern Africa. The centrepiece of Uproot, his new exhibition at the Tyburn Gallery ...

There was always a sulphurous whiff of something downright Luciferian about him, yet enough fragility to make the act seem all too real – an infinitely more convincing and intriguing character than ...