Far from being just a ghoulish footnote to medieval history, Aethelred’s massacre of the Danes likely reinforced Danish determination to attack England and set in motion a chain of events that ...

It is the building where people have thought to have lived for the longest period of time ...

With their winding streets, historic buildings and charming atmosphere, these medieval towns and villages will take you back ...

Crime and punishment in Britain overview - OCR B Crime and punishment in early modern Britain, c.1500-c.1750 - OCR B Crime and punishment in Industrial Britain, c.1750-c.1900 - OCR B Crime and ...

Analyzing DNA from hundreds of Anglo-Saxon-era bones in England and in northwest Europe, a paper in the journal Nature has concluded that as much as 76 percent of ancestry in eastern medieval ...

The people's health overview - OCR B Early modern Britain and the people's health, c.1500-c.1750 - OCR B Industrial Britain and the people's health, c.1750-c.1900 - OCR B Britain since c.

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word ...

Experts say a church clock in Montacute may be one of the oldest working timepieces in the country. Though initially believed ...