Archaeologists and volunteers have begun an eight-week dig to unearth the 13th-century origins of a seaside town. The former ...

Did Easter come from an ancient Greek festival? Scholars have long linked the customs involved in this celebration with pagan festivals ...

The personal ambitions of a few powerful individuals have triggered armed conflicts which might launch a third world war, one ...

Amazing America's Kevin Kotwas hops into history to find out the hidden history of the world's most famous hare.

The discovery of a 1,000-year-old silver-gilt ring inscribed with runes is a remarkable archaeological find and a rare personal trace of identity, belief, and expression from an era where written ...

When Rome abandoned Britain, waves of Angle, Saxon, and Jutish warriors carved new kingdoms from the ruins of a lost province. This is the story of Kent, the oldest Anglo-Saxon realm, and the ...

The Christian and egg hunting holiday of Easter is almost here. Everything you need to know about it and when Good Friday is.

When was England’s first Parliament? Many people consider Simon de Montfort’s Parliament convened on 20th January 1265 as the first representative parliament however, Britain’s parliamentary history ...

Scholars say Aethelstan was likely the first king of England. But the story of his rise to power is complex. A portrait of Aethelstan, who was King of England from 924 until 939 A.D, in a book ...

Excavators recently unearthed an Anglo-Saxon “princely” grave — containing two men, a horse and grave goods — during the construction of a nuclear power station in England. The discovery was made at ...

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 ...

Lewis Baker Warren entered Yale’s Sheffield Scientific School in 1906, studied electrical engineering, got mediocre grades. Those who knew the tall, handsome lad with the blue eyes and dark hair ...