The Tudor-era ship had evaded search parties for centuries, and would probably have continued to do so were it not for the ...

Matilda of Canossa, Queen Christina of Sweden and Maria Clementina Sobieska. Though separated by centuries, they each engaged ...

Today in History for Nov. 26: In 1539, in England, the monastery at the Fountains Abbey was surrendered to the Crown. It was the richest of the Cistercian houses, prior to the time of the Dissolution ...

Discover the secrets behind the childhood home of Princess Diana, Althorp House, where she also first met Prince Charles.

A park in Surrey which was once home to a palace built for King Henry VIII has won the two top awards for heritage and conservation. The king had begun building Nonsuch Palace in 1538 to mark 30 years ...

Henry VIII’s jousting yard on the former grounds of Greenwich Palace has been located using ground-penetrating radar. Jousting was one of Henry’s (r. 1509–1547) favorite pastimes, so he ordered a ...

A long-awaited excavation by Italian archaeologists has finally taken place beneath the floors of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem. The church is believed to have been built in part upon ...