The background for the climactic Battle of Hastings in the totemic year of 1066 ...

It is thought that the tapestry, which is nearly 230 feet (70 metres) long and 18 inches high, was woven in the 1070s to ...

The first battle of the American Revolution was marked on Saturday in Lexington, Massachusetts, 250 years later.

The previous count of 93 penises stitched into the embroidered account of the Norman conquest of England is now disputed by ...

The Inn at Hastings Park has a front-porch view of the start of the Revolutionary War. But there’s much more to the vibrant towns of Lexington and Concord than just battle re-enactments.

Three workhouses were built in 1066 country, in Hastings, Battle and Rye, and large parts of all these buildings still survive, but now as housing. Before 1834 the poor had been looked after quite ...

A quick scan of the British Library’s catalogue reveals that more than twenty books entitled The Battle of Hastings have been published in recent years, plus several others involving ‘1066’ or ‘Harold ...

This stark, forbidding building was the biggest in Hastings. It was on the site of a chicken farm on the north-east side of Cackle Street – now Frederick Road – in Ore Valley, and dominated life in ...

The "Hastings History of Crime" talk by Joel Griggs, The True CRIME Museum's Curator, is scheduled for Sunday the 18th of May 2025, from 3:00 PM to 4:00 PM at The Hastings Museum and Art Gallery. This ...

Enter ancient worlds, meet famous people and discover fascinating facts by exploring a wide selection of historical games and activities.

It’s not the fact Central Hawke’s Bay District Council owns a rare 20th-century cannon - it’s what it’s choosing to do with ...

This year’s doleful centennial commemorates by far the worst day in the long history of the British Army ... occurred in the first 15 minutes of the battle. “It was about this time that ...