To stay in a castle is to wake up in one of England's fascinating feats of history. Battlements, suits of armour, moated ...

Living in a Gothic manor on an estate that dates back to the Middle Ages, David Hunt and his wife, Colette, are often asked about ghosts. At least one of the previous owners met a gruesome death, but ...

Archaeologists have returned to the site of a 1,000-year-old monastery where they are piecing together evidence of a forgotten medieval abbey. Cerne Abbey in Cerne Abbas, Dorset, was demolished in ...

As creators of educational, religious and charitable institutions, women of means found ways to circumvent the patriarchal ...

Beneath a city square in the English city of Leicester, archaeologists have discovered a Roman infant burial, remnants of medieval commerce and a 16th-century civic building’s foundations. Experts ...

Two unrelated young people buried in cemeteries in England in the Early Middle Ages probably had grandparents from West Africa. How and when their relatives arrived in Britain is unknown, but the ...