Mine is Thomas Becket, the martyred archbishop of Canterbury ... Having been betrayed by an ambitious former student, More learns that the young man has, in return for his perjury, been appointed ...

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 ...

Debauched King Henry II (Peter O'Toole) installs his longtime court facilitator Thomas Becket (Richard Burton) as the Archbishop of Canterbury, assuming that his old friend will be a compliant and ...