Exploring the archaeology of Smallhythe Place Smallhythe Place, a National Trust property in Kent, is home to a picturesque timber-framed house with…
Immortalised in Henry V as ‘this wooden O’, the Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch was home to Shakespeare’s company of players until the…
Anglo-Saxon skeletons have been surfacing for almost a century in the fields of Oakington. Now a new project has laid bare the…
An entire Neolithic settlement, predating Skara Brae, has been found on the tiny Orkney Island of Wyre.…
Were lepers reviled as 'unclean' outcasts of the Middle Ages? Recent excavations cast doubt on this enduring belief…
During the Celtic Tiger economic boom, Ireland experienced a period of prosperity which led to an unprecedented ‘golden age’ for commercial archaeology.…
We traditionally see Roman Britain from the Rome-centred view; but how did the Britons really react? Now, a new book by Miles…
American-born conservator Dana Goodburn-Brown has worked around the world and made numerous appearances on television. Now, her infectious enthusiasm is inspiring a…
Prehistoric forests, the skull of a child, the slipway of a Victorian engineering masterpiece and part of a Tudor palace jetty: all…
At Howburn Farm in South Lanarkshire, a scattering of flints, discovered by the Biggar Archaeology Group, turned out to be evidence of…
By 1850, Manchester had a population of 300,000, and most of its 172 textile mills had already been built. Cotton goods were…