These two books arrive from opposite ends of the literary map -- one a medieval biography structured around a contemporary walk through England, the other a late entry in a long-running urban fantasy ...

How small our leaders are, how petty and parochial. For all Sir Keir Starmer’s bluster about national resilience, he is ...

Love is, famously, a many-splendoured thing, encompassing a multitude of emotion. Such feelings expressed on paper over half a century are now on show in a new exhibition titled “Love Letters” that's ...

Astronomers suggest the honor should go to an 11th century monk known for a disastrous flying attempt.

For generations, a misidentified medieval manuscript was hidden in a 474-year-old English boarding school’s library. After a ...

Archaeologists in England recently discovered the sixth- and seventh-century graves, which also contained numerous weapons ...

Life in Greece and in the Byzantine Empire as a whole is a fascinating chapter of human history that not many pay attention ...

Grave 109 at Oakington is a rare triple burial, holding the remains of a female infant, a young woman (left) and an older woman (center). Duncan Sayer The soldiers arrived in “three ships of war, with ...

Before the witch hunts of the early modern era, there were the quiet, terrifying origins of suspicion. This video explores ...

In medieval Europe, castles were the ultimate homes for kings and nobles. The big stone structures weren't just fancy ...