Before the Norman Conquest, England’s queens lived lives marked by scandal, betrayal, and tragedy. Their stories reveal the dangerous world of medieval power.

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 ...

Excavations in the heart of Leicester have provided a window into nearly 2,000 years of the city’s rich history, according to ...

What is often overlooked is the origin of ‘Englishness’ and the way that the Christian Church largely invented the label as ...

In 2022, archaeologists worked on the ancient DNA from a number of early medieval cemeteries, and found two individuals that stood out. One was from Updown Eastry in Kent, known as Updown girl, and ...

In the 18th and 19th centuries, Britain changed from a mainly agricultural society into a society based on larger scale manufacturing in mills and factories. We call this industrialisation. This was ...

Practise Viking throwing skills in Brynja Bloodaxe’s Chucking Challenge Row the longboat to new lands in Ragnarr the Raven’s Rhythm Raider Catch the biggest haul in the Snorri Salmon-Face Fishing Cup ...

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

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