In the early pages of In the Land of Giants, Max Adams quotes an eighth-century Anglo-Saxon poem that describes the shattered stone shells and jagged masonry still standing, three centuries after the ...

Embark on an epic adventure as we use a 100-year-old map to uncover rare treasures hidden in a creek! From antique finds to fascinating history, this mud larking journey is one for the books.

Job very well done for England then who are in the driving seats to win the Six Nations for a sixth straight time. Join us next week for Le Crunch. Holly Aitchison looked effortless, she kicked ...

Brilliant footwork from Ellie Kildunne keeps a ball in play as England have the ball near the try line once again. Abby Dow should get involved in the party, the England wing beats one player but ...

We have read nearly 500 of the Football Association’s most serious disciplinary cases against clubs for crowd trouble - and you can search for them on our interactive map. The rising tide of ...

“The way it was reused tells us about archival practices in 16 th-century England. It’s a piece of history in its own right.” Having ultimately decided to leave it be, the university then ha ...

The company which prints banknotes for the Bank of England is on the brink of an historic takeover that would see it owned by private equity investors for the first time since it was founded 212 ...

The Spanish word for Easter is Pascua. In Italian, it’s Pasqua. French speakers have Pâques. All of these words derive from pascha —both Latin and Greek for Passover, the Jewish festival during which ...

Many place names in Oxfordshire date back to the eighth century, but do you know the ... in the Domesday Book - a survey of landholding in England in 1086 - while others have even older origins.

A useful new interactive map has today been published by Thinkbroadband, which rather handily provides a visual overview of broadband related roadworks across the whole of England and thus helps to ...