New research reveals how bears became more common in English towns after 1066, helping illuminate the history of bear baiting.
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An exploration of why the English eat the way they do, and what those habits reveal about English society.
It’s easy to say now that paying the Vikings to go away ‘didn’t work’. But this obscures the fact paying off one Viking band didn’t ensure another would stop coming.
Using needlework to construct personal stories and a tangible record of events in a form of comic strip has a long and storied history.
Ellizabeth I’s refusal to go to bed was a deliberate final act, shaped by a lifetime of political strategy, emotional restraint and unresolved reckoning.
Throughout the history of the language, what has been considered ‘bad’ speech often becomes ‘proper.’ You just have to give it time.
Today’s basic income proponents say cash payments would be good for everyone. In the 1790s, the idea’s inventor argued something else: It was owed to everyone.
A well-rounded view of the king, his government, religion and more.
The English cleric and economist’s name is used to malign critics of progress. But historical context sheds a different light on Malthus’ ideas, a scholar argues.
‘Loneliness’ is a modern word – but we have a lot to learn from how early modern nuns understood solitude.
By 1660, the British government had come to rely on a shadowy trade of secrets for gathering intelligence.
Jude Law joins the pantheon of great screen Henry VIIIs, up there with Robert Shaw and Richard Burton.
An estimated fifth of Londoners suffered from syphilis in the late 18th century and, behind closed doors, Regency Britons were engaged in extra martial affairs and even polyamory.
Mary & George depicts the real-life story of Mary Villiers and her son George, and their social climbing at the early 17th century English royal court.
It was sometimes thought that men who had sex with men would give birth to monsters.
Not a simple tale of English kings overcoming Vikings, the creation of England involved far more bureaucracy than the epic legends let on
If history is to be of any use to those who study it, it ought to help them understand the nature of the country and society they live in.
The gate has been built on the site of an actual Roman gateway, thought to date to the invasion of Britain in AD 43.
While you enjoy a hot chocolate and a spin on the teacups, take a moment to thank the frost fairs of our ancestors for starting a beloved Christmas tradition.
The jewellery and human remains discovered at a recent excavation in Northamptonshire shed light on the elite position of some newly-Christian women in seventh century England.
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