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 ...

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 ...

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