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

The Saxon King in Petersfield Avenue is thought to be the first of the purpose-built pubs on the Harold Hill estate, according to Havering Libraries. The watering hole opened its doors to customers in ...

Chineham was occupied by settlers as far back as 2,000BC and then by Anglo-Saxon residents in the period 600 to 800AD.

Likely removed by Nazi researchers, the scrap of fabric is a small but crucial part of the tattered tapestry's nearly ...

His father died in 1376 and so Richard succeeded his grandfather as king. Richard was devoted to Westminster Abbey and to St Edward the Confessor and he rebuilt the northern entrance and some bays of ...

THE recent feature about Horatio Nelson brought about an interest as to what life was like in England, and especially in ...

Only eight years earlier, Henry IV had deposed his cousin Richard II, who died in custody soon afterwards. Richard’s rule was ...

The Chew Valley Hoard, the highest valued treasure ever found in Britain, was discovered in January 2019 by metal detectorists with the landowner's permission.

James Norton and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will fight for the English throne in King and Conqueror ... claimed the throne of England following the death of Edward Confessor (Eddie Marsan) in January 1066, ...

The bones of Edward the Confessor still lie in his Shrine behind the High Altar ... He was buried in the Abbey by order of King Charles I. One interesting plaque is that to the memory of Francis ...