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Hereward the Wake is remembered as one of England’s great rebels, but Peterborough knew another side of him. Discover the real history, the 1070 raid on the abbey, the folklore that followed, Charles Kingsley’s Victorian reinvention and David Pinner’s 1974 Key Theatre play.
William Tufnell Le Queux (1864–1927) was one of the most extraordinary literary figures ever to make his home in the Peterborough area.
Two Peterborough-born creatives helped shape two of cinema’s most unforgettable films. Discover how David Pinner inspired The Wicker Man and Adrian Lyne directed the Oscar-nominated thriller Fatal Attraction.
Five UK number ones, two BRIT Awards and more than ten million records sold. The story starts with a Bretton schoolboy who wanted to play football, and a Saturday night impression of Michael Jackson.
From a school drama club in Walton to Apple TV, Netflix and the BBC, Luke Pasqualino has spent almost twenty years as one of the most recognisable faces to come out of Peterborough.
Born in Peterborough in 1997, Rene Matić is an internationally recognised artist, photographer, writer and poet whose work examines contemporary Britain through intimate images of family, friendship, subculture, faith and queer life.
Michael Stonebank, known professionally as Stonebank, is a Peterborough-born DJ, songwriter and electronic music producer. Best known for his long association with the Canadian record label Monstercat, he has built an international following through high-energy releases spanning UK hardcore, electro house, drum and bass, dubstep, hardstyle and melodic electronic music.
Hereward the Wake was one of the most celebrated English rebels of the 11th century. From the waterways and marshes of the Fens, he resisted the rule of William the Conqueror during the unsettled years following the Norman Conquest.
The monk who wrote Peterborough Abbey’s history and gave us the phrase “the golden borough”. Hugh Candidus, his chronicle, and how the text survived.
Long before nature writing became a publishing category, a minister from Eastfield was teaching Edwardian Britain how to look at a pond.
Peterborough-born writer and social scientist Richard V. Reeves has built an international career examining social mobility, class, family life and the changing circumstances of boys and men.
The man who wrote the novel behind The Wicker Man was born in Peterborough, and came back to write a play about Hereward the Wake.
Peterborough has produced its share of writers, but few have travelled as quickly from local comprehensive to national bookshelf as Benjamin Dean.
John Clare preserved Helpston’s old Whitsun custom of visiting East Well with sugar and water for wishing and good luck in the spring landscape.
Discover Pega, sister of St Guthlac and the woman behind Peakirk’s name, through early medieval writing, healing tradition, church history and later legend.
When the River Nene would not surrender a drowned body, Peterborough tradition offered a strange solution involving a loaf, quicksilver, moving water and a drum.
An old Peterborough rhyme warned that if a hare made its resting place in the Cathedral Close, fire would strike the town within a week.
Behind Peterborough Cathedral’s high altar stands an extraordinary Anglo-Saxon monument pierced by six mysterious holes and surrounded by centuries of interpretation and custom.
A careless invocation of the Devil became attached to the devastating Peterborough Abbey fire of 1116, preserved in the medieval account of Hugh Candidus.
Look beneath Peterborough Cathedral’s magnificent West Front and find an upside-down man seized by demons, possibly the notorious biblical magician Simon Magus.
In 1926 witnesses reported a short black-hooded figure gliding along the road between Dogsthorpe and Garton End. Some claimed to see it repeatedly.
An old St Mark’s Eve belief said the coming year’s weddings and funerals could be seen in advance by watching at All Saints Churchyard in Paston.
At Longthorpe Tower, three magnificently dressed kings encounter three corpses in one of medieval Europe’s most unsettling reminders that status cannot defeat death.
A medieval knight lies inside Holy Trinity, Orton Longueville. One unusual carved detail inspired a far more gruesome explanation in local folklore.