Dan Jones and Professor Michael Livingston walk through the battlefield of Shrewsbury, where the future king Henry V took an ...

The result is a performance that feels intimate and fiercely dangerous, anchoring a series that scratches the itch for gritty ...

When you picture medieval warfare, you might think of epic battles and famous monarchs. But what about the everyday soldiers ...

A permanent exhibition showing a state-of-the-art avatar of King Richard III has opened in Leicester. The display, which ...

Dr Cat Jarman, a historian and archaeologist specialising in the Viking Age, reviews scenes from TV shows set in the Viking ...

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

Demolishing its East Wing prompts me to propose renaming the White House. I suggest Chat-Pala-Cas (Chateau-Palace-Castle). Picture a moat, drawbridge, towers and turrets. Imagine a courtyard with a ...

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

A full-page Jesse Tree introduces the Psalms in the Tickhill Psalter, a 14th-century illuminated manuscript on view through ...

We visited the birthplace of William Shakespeare to summon the playwright’s spirit in the town where he lived—and which comes ...

The Madonna from Havraň, a rare medieval sculpture of the Virgin Mary, has gone on display in the Convent of St. Agnes of ...

With accessibility, affordability, and endless historical beauty, the 'World's Most Stress-Free City to Visit for 2025' is a ...