Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

The Nazis loved the Bayeux Tapestry. They loved it so much that they tried (and failed) to steal it away to Germany at the ...

A planning committee has rebelled against its officers by refusing a scheme for two new homes in an Oxfordshire village.

The Saxon King in Petersfield Avenue is thought to be the first of the purpose-built pubs on the Harold Hill estate, according to Havering Libraries. The watering hole opened its doors to customers in ...

Only eight years earlier, Henry IV had deposed his cousin Richard II, who died in custody soon afterwards. Richard’s rule was ...

THE recent feature about Horatio Nelson brought about an interest as to what life was like in England, and especially in ...

In like a lion, out like a lamb.” Since we’ve finally almost reached that fabled calendrical turning point in the middle of the month, I thought I’d put together a playlist that goes in like a lion ...

Edward the Confessor sends Harold Godwinson to Normandy in this scene from the Bayeux Tapestry. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons The 230-foot-long tapestry—which is, in fact, an embroidered ...

Perhaps because he is the baby of the Windsor family, Prince Edward has usually remained in the shadow of his older siblings. But as he celebrates his 61st birthday today, royal watchers are ...

Chineham was occupied by settlers as far back as 2,000BC and then by Anglo-Saxon residents in the period 600 to 800AD.