In 2018 a big fat book returned to England, where it had been written, for the first time in 1,302 years. The Laurentian Library in Florence was lending, for an exhibition at the British Library, the ...

From Alfred Hitchcock to John Ford, we're looking at the directors that Quentin Tarantino has expressed a dislike for over ...

The frontline of Viking territory runs through the unassuming market town of Tamworth in Staffordshire, putting it at the heart of English history ...

For centuries, a single parchment leaf lay unnoticed inside a thick composite volume at Rome’s Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, ...

Hacker Martha Root used AI to expose vulnerabilities in white supremacist dating sites, collaborating with journalists to reveal shocking data breaches and dismantle extremist networks.

Population genomics has exposed a history far more complex, dynamic and intertwined than we might wish to imagine. Even in a ...

Archaeologists have found artefacts covering thousands of years of Nottinghamshire's past in early work ahead of a major road scheme. A team working prior to the widening of the A46 has excavated more ...

Despite their occupations of Britain, the Romans and Vikings didn't leave much of a genetic mark on Britons. The Anglo-Saxons ...

Activity 1: Anglo-Saxon village Activity 2: Quiz - Who were the Anglo-Saxons? Well let’s start at the beginning. The Anglo-Saxon age in Britain was about 410 to 1066 and they originally come from ...

Genetic analysis of 1039 people buried in Britain between the Bronze Age and the Norman conquest highlights the impact of the Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings on the island’s ancestry ...

In it, Impossible Mission Force agent Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) must infiltrate a CIA computer kept in a room-sized vault with ...

Inhabiting the persona of real historic figures requires more than a costume and a script. These interpreters bring history ...