A faded label suggested the bones had been unearthed at the nearby Beachy Head cliffs sometime in the 1950s, though specific details of the original excavation had been lost to time. What followed was ...

Unlike most Anglo-Saxon gold hoards, which are typically recovered from burial contexts alongside human remains and other grave goods, these objects were found scattered across a slope with no ...

Its aristocrats used to gather for “the season” in the summer months (Ascot in June, Lord’s and Henley in July) and for ...

Timber from the Whiligh estate in the Sussex Weald was used to build the vast hammerbeam roof of Westminster Hall — and its custodian still fells trees for very special commissions.

“Where the Cambridge in Context tour gives you all the history of the town side of the Cambridge story, the Hidden Cambridge ...

The identity of a Roman-era individual found in southern England has finally been resolved after scientists at the Natural ...

And it is true that the Victorians had mummy unwrapping parties. So mummies would be, you know, shipped over from Egypt and ...

11. The modern Christmas tree tradition began in Germany in the 16th century. 12. Queen Victoria and Prince Albert ...

Pyrite found at a 400,000-year-old site in Barnham, England suggests that early humans were making fire long before experts ...

Heat-reddened clay, fire-cracked stone, and fragments of pyrite mark where Neanderthals gathered around a campfire 400,000 ...

Urban populations in southern Britain experienced a decline in health that lasted for generations after the Romans arrived ...

Scientists in Britain say ancient humans may have learned to make fire far earlier than previously believed, after uncovering ...