From Britain's distant Viking past right up to the D-Day landings, here are 15 of the most common misconceptions that many ...

Becket’s shrine in Canterbury Cathedral — was destroyed by King Henry VIII in 1538, to this day pilgrims walk along that ...

A poet and scholar, James sought to avoid conflicts in Europe and commissioned the translation of the Bible that would bear ...

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Learn a new phrase and make your English sound more natural and interesting. Words We Use is a bilingual series that helps ...

The charity tasked with rescuing an "incredibly important" building in East Sussex has been given a grant of over £21,000 by ...

Robert Hardman and Professor Kate Williams recount Anne Boleyn's final days in the Tower of London, from her condemned walk ...

In this video, we explore the Princes of Wales from the Tudor and Stuart Dynasties, highlighting significant figures such as Arthur Tudor, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Henry Frederick Stuart, Charles I, ...

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village,” the author once wrote, “she must seek them abroad.” Yours ...

A Catholic priest I knew once joked that Anglicans are just dressing up as Catholics but with bad theology. According to a ...

The first recorded date of Christmas in England was in the year 597 when Augustine baptised 10,000 Saxons in Kent on ...

Tis the season for excellent biographies of great artists! Elizabeth Goldring’s Holbein: Renaissance Master (Paul Mellon ...