Known at the time as the largest elephant in the country, Columbus was enroute from an exhibition when he crashed through a ...

Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have been pouring into the medieval hilltop town of Assisi in Italy to venerate the ...

Carlo Acutis will become the Catholic Church’s first millennial saint at a solemn canonization Mass on April 27 in St.

Cambridge University researchers found a manuscript with rare Arthurian tales bound into a ledger more than 400 years old and ...

Archaeologists deconstructed these monumental ancient graves scattered across the desert of eastern Africa and found several ...

Allen Lane has signed Florence Scott’s “bold and original” history of Medieval queenship, Monarchia: A New History of the ...

Aethelred failed to prepare for the Viking raids and invasions that would later bring Cnut to the throne of England, forging ...

The Telegraph and Argus published a number of death notices last week, as follows.

"The Last Kingdom" follows Uhtred of Bebbanburg, a young Saxon who is kidnapped and raised by Vikings before working for Alfred the Great and ultimately seizing control of the lands that once belonged ...

Winchester Cathedral is one of the most prestigious places of worship in the UK, but a new report alleges ‘significant failures’ in its culture and leadership - Universal Images Group Editorial ...

It is the resting place of Jane Austen and an odd array of medieval figures, including Cnut the Great, Saint Swithun, and William II (commonly known as William Rufus), the son of William the ...