Twenty-two pieces of silver bullion, including both raw ingots and flattened Viking arm rings, were discovered in the Galloway Hoard. Arm rings such as these, which are usually found in Ireland and ...

There are certain accoutrements that rulers across time appear to have agreed are necessary symbols of power. You probably want a crown, which might be made of precious metal, leaves, or possibly even ...

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From the Stone Age, through Roman and Jute and Saxon settlements to becoming the main city of the Kingdom of Kent and the ...

We often hear fascinating stories about how things originated: the universe, the wheel, even pizza. But when it comes to the ...

The Anglo-Saxon Church to negotiate a way forward in a context which, at one time, would have seemed disastrous.

A newly released documentary is shedding light on the lives and deaths of individuals from early medieval England.

In this video, Dan Snow joins British firearm historian Jonathan Ferguson to test fire a Vickers Machine Gun from the First ...

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...