This year marks the 40th anniversary of the island of Staffa coming into the care of the National Trust for Scotland. Famed…
The Irish Potato Famine, or Great Hunger, took a terrible toll. Between the million who died and the million more who emigrated…
So it really is him, then. Unusually for archaeology all the strands of evidence point to the same conclusion. And what a…
Prehistoric standing stones are famously enigmatic, but some monuments may have more secrets in their past than was previously supposed. Recent excavations…
Orkney could be an open-air archaeology museum. Sites such as Skara Brae and Maes Howe fire the imagination with their spectacular preservation.…
Covering the end of Time Team feels like writing an obituary. The programme has been there for much of my personal journey…
HMS Namur brings a new meaning to ‘ship burial’. Conjuring images of Sutton-Hoo style splendour, the boat is normally just an eye-catching…
Every school pupil knows Richard III’s apocryphal cry of ‘A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse’. But what happened next?…
Mick Aston is one of our most highly respected and celebrated archaeologists. Over the last 6 months he has left Time Team…
When thousands of bodies were discovered in Medieval mass graves at Spitalfields cemetery, the Black Death was believed to be responsible. Then…
Shakespeare’s Curtain theatre is a major discovery. Immortalised in Henry V as ‘this wooden O’, it was here that Romeo and Juliet’s…