Did you know the day we celebrate Easter was decided by a woman from Yorkshire?

 ‘I realised that Christianity had a history that included women beyond the Bible stories. As a girl growing up in a traditional parish where women did not participate in any ministries, this was transformative,’ says Nancy Walbank.

“Why isn’t Easter on the same date each year, like Christmas?” I asked my mum when I was ten years old as I tried to understand why my birthday had fallen on Ash Wednesday. Fasting and abstinence were not how I wanted to celebrate my tenth birthday! Mum explained that the date of Easter had been agreed at the Synod of Whitby, and a lady named Hild had brought together different groups to agree on a formula for calculating Easter Day.