Following on from last month’s column, here of south-east England: a series of fortifications on both sides of the English ...

The big day is almost here! There's just a few days to go until the annual chocolate-eating fest...and while you’ve probably ...

She was born into a Viking noble family, inherited vast estates in East Anglia, and became the lifelong partner of the man who would become the last Anglo-Saxon king of England. The Church refused to ...

Welcome to the newly relaunched History Hit YouTube channel! For our first video we’ve recreated the Battle of Hastings using ...

A Kolkata-born engineer-turned-entrepreneur has been appointed as the first British-Indian high sheriff of the County ...

New research challenges the long-standing image of King Harold racing across England before the Battle of Hastings. New ...

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 Reform leader heads to a traditionally Tory corner of the country tonight with a message that Giles Sheldrick says will ...

In fact, so rife was slavery that it formed part of a three-tiered Viking society. At the top there was the chieftain, or ...

Once known as the "dark" ages, in reality it's a time of glittering art and extraordinary cultural fusions. This alternative history of the British Isles, told through art, brings together encounters ...

In 1066, England was invaded by multiple foreign powers. A northern force led by King Harald Hardrada of Norway advanced on ...