Archaeologists reveal that an ordinary house in Bosham was the private headquarters of King Harold II, which changes local ...

ereward the Wake made his stand on 27 October 1071. It was on the same day in 2022 that Elon Musk completed his acquisition ...

Off the coast of Northumberland lies an island known by two names. Lindisfarne, or Holy Island. But why does it have two ...

Is democracy slipping through our fingers? First there is the abolition of trial by jury for all but the most serious cases ...

The great British high street is on life support. Online retail has had a detrimental effect for years, turning some high ...

Beneath medieval Bamburgh Castle on England’s northeast coast lie the remains of a royal Anglo-Saxon fortress that was once the seat of the kings of Northumbria. (Colin Carter Photography/Getty Images ...

Straddling the Rhine River and offering a glorious blend of Swiss, German and French culture, this city satisfies history ...

The title of England's oldest pub is a prestigious one, and it's also a hotly contested issue. A Greene King inn near St Ives ...

From the Stone Age, through Roman and Jute and Saxon settlements to becoming the main city of the Kingdom of Kent and the ...

Birinus is sometimes known as the “Apostle to the West Saxons”, and the patron saint of missionaries. Thanks to St Birinus, ...

The fourteenth-century Icelandic Edwardsaga chronicles the life of Edward the Confessor, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England (reigned 1042–1066). It also describes how, in the years after the Norman ...