An historian who founded the Borders Book Festival has said being recognised in the King’s Birthday Honours feels like receiving a ...

The week-long battlefield study trip for 50 learners and staff from the college campus at Stoke Climsland under the guidance ...

There’s great excitement along the Quays of New Ross as a temporary exhibition has been opened to visitors to view the ...

One day last spring, just as I had entered the woods, I saw a tiny, spotted fawn struggle to stand for the first time on ...

The Anglo-Saxon aristocracy, many of whom had fought and died with King Harold Godwinson at Senlac Hill, were systematically ...

More than a century ago, archaeologists excavated a Viking ship buried in the ground at the Oseberg farm in Tønsberg, Norway. Inside the unusuall ...

The Bayeux Tapestry has obsessed medieval historians for decades. Though it offers a vivid and singular account of the Norman conquest of England in 1066, fundamental questions surrounding the ...

A professor at Oxford University says there are 93 depictions of male genitalia in the tapestry, while an expert on Anglo-Saxon nudity claims he has found an extra phallus Photo: Bayeux Museum A ...

A renewed scholarly debate emerged over the exact number of phalluses depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry, the famous medieval embroidery over 70 meters long that illustrates the events leading up to ...

But Bayeux Tapestry scholar and expert on Anglo-Saxon nudity Dr Christopher Monk believes he has found one extra on another man in the tapestry. Speaking to HistoryExtra, Dr Monk said ...

“Medieval people were not crude, unsophisticated, dim-witted individuals. Quite the opposite.” Podcast host and Bayeux Tapestry expert Dr David Musgrove said the new theory was fascinating. “It’s a ...