Today is Candlemas, the Feast of the Presentation of Christ in the Temple and of the Purification of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The Presentati...

Research on the history and archaeology of the ninth and tenth century monastery at Lyminge in Kent has drawn the conclusion that the commun...

The History Blog  has an article about the silver cross found in the grave at Harpole in Northamptonshire which I posted about yesterday. Th...

The Historic England  website reports today the discovery in Warwickshire of a gold heart shaped pendant linked by an enamelled hand to a su...

Last December I posted in  An Anglo-Saxon necklace from Northamptonshire   about an important necklace and other items from a seventh centur...

The Mail Online  website has an article about a fourteenth century almanac that was an early gift to the Royal Society. Until now part of it...

The Mail Online  has an article about a number of major losses in our heritage of Victorian buildings in the late 1950s and 1960s - when it ...

I have never seen ‘Outlander’, and as a historian, am always very suspicious of such fictionalised time-travelling dramas about the past. Th...