In last month’s column, I examined a series of sites legacy of the Norman Conquest. One of these was Westminster Abbey, which…
In 1700, Liverpool was a small town with a dock that was in danger of silting up. Yet it was a…
English Heritage has just spent £2.1 million recreating an Elizabethan garden based on an eyewitness description published in a letter in 1575.…
High on the moor at Silloans, within the Otterburn Training Area, lies the well-preserved remains of a trench system.…
To get to the bottom of why, and how, the Ministry of Defence looks after archaeology on an active firing range, CA…
A new BBC documentary presented by Alice Roberts has been charting the spread of modern humans across the globe. Is it really…
Jargon: which words would you ban?The Local Government Association has published a list of words and phrases that it thinks council staff…
A 9th century palace, an enormous 3,000-year-old Neolithic earthworks and the origins of Scottish kingship: Gordon Noble and colleagues from the University…
Archaeologists have excavated over 600 bodies from around the world, mysteriously buried face-down. Britain is the biggest hotspot — with more than…
Geography made a unitary empire embracing the Mediterranean and temperate Europe inherently unstable; but the wreckage of the Roman Empire contained the…
‘England’s Past for Everyone’ is a groundbreaking new project set up by one of our most venerable institutions, the Victoria County History.…