An artsy seaside town known for its bustling Old Town and famous history has been named as one of the UK’s best places to ...

Among the discoveries was a hoard of 179 silver pennies, likely buried on the eve of the Battle of Hastings in 1066 ...

The comet the world knows as Halley’s Comet may owe its “first to spot the pattern” credit to someone far earlier than Edmond Halley: an 11th-century English monk. New interdisciplinary research ...

One day. One battlefield. Two claimants to the throne. This is the full story of the Battle of Hastings - how William of Normandy seized the English crown, and why that single moment shaped the ...

The figures released by the British Museum show that over the past three years there have been significant increases in the number of finds reported by the public, accounting for 94%.

Why the Bayeux Tapestry is an important relic of London history.

Two fragments of the 11th-Century fabric were stolen from Bayeux during the Nazi occupation of France in the 1940s.

A turbulent time in Studham’s past was described in a talk about the village at the January meeting of Dunstable and District ...

A single gunshot echoed across the Vincennes fortress moat at dawn in 1804, felling the Duke of Enghien, a Bourbon prince.