Horses are instinctively wired to run from danger. So how did medieval armies train them to thunder towards enemy lines ...

"I rang my son and said, 'You need to come – I've found a sword and there's a hand on the end of it!'" By the time his son, ...

A 'haunted' Somerset prison where notorious killers met their end has since transformed into an "eye-opening" tourist ...

A brand new medieval village has been discovered in Suffolk, England, near the modern village of Friston in eastern England, ...

"Wonderful things," Howard Carter famously replied when he was asked what he saw upon entering Egyptian Pharoah Tutankhamun's ...

We have all those things in our Constitution, but all of those necessities have been overthrown by ambitious politicians over the relatively short history of our nation.

On several occasions this year, US President Donald Trump has suggested that, thanks to his dealmaking prowess, long-coveted ...

The etymology of mistletoe — a plant with small, oval evergreen leaves and waxy white berries — may strike some as repugnant.

The sculpture commemorates the discovery of medieval gold and silver coins found by Anglian Water workers by accident.

The 1914 Christmas Truce wasn’t universal, and it didn’t last, but it’s become one of war’s most retold on-screen moments: ...

Prof Benjamin Pohl, a historian from the University of Bristol, has published a new paper on the history of the Bayeux ...

The beloved December catchphrase “Merry Christmas” and the punch we serve at celebrations of the holiday have much in common.