Artists and historians are hoping plans for a museum and art trail will help to mark a Viking clash that took place in ...

Thanks to the ambiguous ending, some fans are wondering if this is the end of The Last Kingdom or if it will be picked up for ...

A newly discovered metal stamp in Denmark may challenge the origins of the Sutton Hoo helmet, one of Britain’s most iconic ...

The Domesday Book is a record of landholding in England from the reign of the Conqueror, surviving in its original manuscript ...

Books include religious scriptures and scribbled jokes, giving glimpse of daily lives of early medieval Irish monks ...

While Easter is now fondly known for egg hunts, the Easter bunny and yummy hot cross buns, the celebration has taken many forms over time.

In 865 the Great Heathen Army—translated from micel haephen here in Old English—landed in East Anglia, the small Anglo-Saxon kingdom on England’s eastern coast. No one knows precisely how ...

Originally from Germany, Anglo-Saxons had invaded England almost six centuries earlier, after the Roman Empire had fallen into disarray. They established their own kingdoms and converted to ...

New Delhi: The invitations to the last supper came on the Prime Minister’s personal letterhead, marked 10, Downing Street.

A Jesuit priest discusses how Christian tattooing started shortly after Jesus’ crucifixion and spread across Europe in later ...

Hamburg was, literally, a dry run for what came later; the aim was to maximise the number of barbecued civilians by, among ...