Allstedt Castle catching the early morning sun / Photo by Andreas Vogel, Wikimedia Commons The rules of common...
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Professor David Carpenter and Professor Nicholas Vincent discuss the reign of King John, the grievances of the...
Narrated by Monty Python’s Terry Jones, this animation takes you back in time to medieval England in...
The start of the 19th century was a time of hostility between France and England, marked by...
1789 Engraving, James Gillray / Public Domain Considering how Britain’s intellectual, political and creative circles responded to the...
British Library, Public Domain How early Asian settlers earned a living and made a home in Britain.     ...
“East India House,” by Thomas Malton the Younger (1748-1804) / Yale Center for British Art, Wikimedia Commons...
HMS Empire Windrush / Royal Navy official photographer, Wikimedia Commons Looking at some of the forgotten voyages that brought...
Engraved illustration from Harper’s Weekly newspaper of the wedding of the Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII) and...
This could come to blows. zoetnet, Creative Commons There’s something every Scot should know about those caterwauling pipes. By...
Rewriting history from the air. William S Hanson Scrutinizing archives of aerial photography, we have been able to...
Detail, Phidias(?), Parthenon Frieze, c. 438-32 B.C.E., pentelic marble (420 linear feet of the 525 that complete...
Sky Atlantic We think of the Druids as being embedded in British culture from the mists of ancient times. But what we think we know...
The Last Kingdom. BBC/Carnival/Des Wille New research suggests his military achievements might have been exaggerated. By Dr. Stuart Brookes...
Cat’s Brain long barrow is near the more famous Stonehenge (pictured) but predates it by hundreds of...
Wellcome Trust/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA At Ebbsfleet, in northeast Kent, archaeologists have finally uncovered the site where JuliusCaesar’s fleet landed in 54 BCE...
By Lynda Telford / 05.20.2018 Events and Projects Officer Richard III Society, Yorkshire Branch What was the...
Vuk Kostic/www.shutterstock.com Historic heroes like King Arthur have helped audiences through the ages to cope with troubling times. By Dr. Raluca Radulescu /...
Portrait of Thomas Wolsey, artist unknown, late 16th century — National Portrait Gallery via Wikimedia Commons Characterised as...
Centre for the Study for Christianity and Culture, University of York., Author provided New archaeological research on Glastonbury Abbey...
Medieval teaching scene. gallica.bnf.fr / BnF Back in the Middle Ages, as well as speaking English and Latin, many people living inBritain also...
Scene from frontispiece to EPB/47966/A: Jane Sharp, The compleat midwife’s companion: or, the art of midwifry improv’d...
There’s something in the water. Shutterstock The reach of the Vikings in England went further than we thought. By Dr. Derek Gore / 04.18.2016...
Behind the mask. National Galleries of Scotland By Dr. Elsje van Kessel / 10.31.2017 Lecturer in Art History...
The Globe Theatre, Panorama Innenraum, London / Photo by Maschinenjunge, Wikimedia Commons   By Dr. Kevin Seiffert and...
Tom Booth, Author provided Turns out the Egyptians weren’t the only ones who mummified their dead. By Dr. Tom Booth / 11.24.2015 Wellcome...
Detail from depiction of a Formosan funeral, featured in George Psalmanazar’s An Historical and Geographical Description of Formosa (1704)...
The end of an era: the death of Harold, according to the Bayeux Tapestry. Wikimedia Commons 1066 was...
Keeping your head up was tough in Roman times. Public domain During a 1988 excavation on London Wall 39 human...
Holly Hayes/Flickr, CC BY-NC A forensic dig into early British history means we can finally understand the heroes and stories...