Today is Mothering Sunday or Mother’s Day, it is traditionally celebrated on the 4th Sunday in Lent. Yorkshire’s most famous Mother wasn’t actually a mother but instead a famous prophetess.   Mother Shipton was born Ursula Sontheil in 1488 and legend has it she was born in a...

Today, March 8th is International Women’s Day which has been celebrated since 1909 (when it started it was just a National Day in the United States).  It’s a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women.  So I thought I’d focus on 3 of...