The Vikings invaded England in the 9th and 10th centuries. They plundered, raped and burned towns to the ground. Or at least, this is the story we know from school and popular culture. Nevertheless, ...

New research challenges the long-standing account of King Harold II Godwinson’s dash south before the Battle of Hastings. It recasts the English monarch not as an exhausted commander driving his ...

The intricate decoration of an ancient Anglo-Saxon silver cross buried for more than a millennium has been revealed for the first time, adding greater detail to one of Britain’s most remarkable ...

ONE dream of the earliest poets has never quite faded from the minds of men. Foretold by prophet and seer; vaguely described in popular myth ; lyingfar back in some ideal past, or yet to be realized ...

New research suggests that a legendary 200-mile march by Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, may have actually involved some ships.

Discover how a reexamination of the history of the Battle of Hastings revealed that King Harold likely didn't walk there.

The five centuries between the end of Roman rule and the Norman Conquest were, for a long time, seen as a culturally desolate era in British history. Whereas classical civilisation was associated with ...

Parisians, history attests, have never needed much provocation to take to the barricades. So it ought not be astounding that the $7 billion hit suffered by French bank Société Générale as a result of ...