This month’s cover feature takes us into rural Oxfordshire, where archaeological investigations ahead of the construction of a housing estate have uncovered…
Tracking the movement of ancient armies is notoriously difficult. On those occasions when a mobile force threw up a bank and ditch…
Comparisons with Pompeii or Tutankhamen’s tomb are easily overused when attempting to convey the excitement of a new archaeological discovery. Recent media…
What was life really like for Medieval peasants? Renowned as the epitome of poverty, they appear as stock images performing hard manual…
The Irish Potato Famine, or Great Hunger, took a terrible toll. Between the million who died and the million more who emigrated…