Accounts that are received from antiquity and repeated over and over again, then merge with eyewitness accounts and blend ...

The Second Barons' War (1264–1267) was a riveting clash in medieval England. Barons, led by Simon de Montfort, challenged ...

Archaeologists say Finlaggan was the seat of power for the Lordship of the Isles. Before that, a previously unknown castle ...

Long before medieval crowns and royal courts, England’s earliest kings traced their bloodline to a god—Woden. From Hengest and Horsa to the royal houses of Anglo-Saxon England, his name echoed through ...

If you’re a lover of medieval history and the epic battles that have shaped nations, you may be wondering how to watch King & ...

Early on the morning of September 23, a 12-foot-tall bronze statue appeared on the lawn of the National Mall. It depicted ...

Records of the prison date back to the late 1400s under King Henry VII, according to Smithsonian Magazine. A parliamentarian’s servant called it “a most vile prison” where their legs were shackled and ...

Beneath a city square in the English city of Leicester, archaeologists have discovered a Roman infant burial, remnants of ...

England but remains overshadowed by Alfred the Great and later rulers. A new biography highlights his military triumphs, ...

From kidnapping a twelve-year-old to force her into marriage, to bleeding the country dry with his army of tax enforcers, Robert Hardman has branded one medieval King as the most monstrous in English ...

Two unrelated young people buried in cemeteries in England in the Early Middle Ages probably had grandparents from West Africa. How and when their relatives arrived in Britain is unknown, but the ...