Geoffrey Moorhouse

For 600 years the bleak isles called the Skelligs, off the west coast of Ireland, were home to a community of monks. What happened to send them back to the mainland?

What happened to the monks, their orders and the communities they served after Henry VIII's break with Rome in 1536? Here, Geoffrey Moorhouse reveals how the Dissolution of the Monasteries affected the great Benedictine priory at Durham, drawing for his sources on material that has lain forgotten in the recesses of one of our great cathedrals.