Assassins, royal marriages and diplomatic gift-giving: historian and archaeologist Max Adams explains how the kings of Mercia ...

In every way, the “woke Right” is the original Right and consistent with the founders of this nation, who in the same year ...

In the 9th century the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms came under increasing attack from the Vikings, culminating in the invasion by the great heathen army in 865. By the year 878, the Vikings had conquered East ...

Historians hold him in high regard, he has been described as, “The Father of mediaeval modern England” and “One of the ...

W hen we talk about the Ancient Britons, we are actually referring to a group of people known as the Celts. They lived in ...

Giant ceramic pots made centuries to millennia ago were found to hold human bones, while others held a mixture of seeds and the remains of fish, frogs and turtles.

But a renewed focus on the importance of the UK's nuclear deterrent means the government is giving much of its nuclear ...

Buried in about AD900, the hoard was discovered in Scotland in September 2014. Among the precious artefacts are a vessel from ...

This isn’t to disparage rap or spoken word poetry (whose complex rhyming schemes can amaze) or those who wish to writer verse ...

Archaeologists were surprised to find 30 Viking Age burials in Denmark, and even more surprised by the extravagant grave ...

A sinkhole near York Theatre Royal has revealed the long-lost remains of St Leonard’s Hospital.

Britain is in the midst of its first 'atheist age ', with non-believers now outnumbering those who believe in God. Now, ...