"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, ...

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Visiting some of England’s most glorious cathedrals is becoming a pricey business, costing anything from £7.50 (Exeter) to ...

The fourteenth-century Icelandic Edwardsaga chronicles the life of Edward the Confessor, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England (reigned 1042–1066). It also describes how, in the years after the Norman ...

The world of Germanic nations is a diverse and rich cultural ethnosphere whose languages and cultures came to dominate Western Europe and much of the world. Their history is rich and spans centuries, ...

BHP Group offered around £40 billion ($53 billion) in its now-aborted attempt to acquire Anglo American Plc, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The commodities giant bid about £34 per ...

BHP Group’s last offer to acquire Anglo American was for about $53 billion (£40 billion) in the late-November blitz in which the mining giant sought to derail an Anglo American-Teck resources tie-up, ...

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An influential City group is urging investors to oppose plans that would guarantee a multimillion pound share bonanza to executives at Anglo American as it finalises a $33bn merger with Canada’s Teck ...