A 900-year-old Anglo-Saxon place of worship has been discovered underneath a church during excavation work. St Cuthbert's in Darlington has been undergoing a £2.5m restoration project to make it more ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A close-up of the Bayeux Tapestry, an embroidered cloth which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England, ...

The tragic tale of Harold, the king who lost England to William the Conqueror in an infamous battle, still looms large in British popular culture. But that story may need a reset, according to new ...

New research suggests that a legendary 200-mile march by Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, may have actually involved some ships. By Stephen Castle Reporting from London The year ...

After Alfred, Anglo-Saxon kings took the Danelaw territories back from the Vikings. Alfred's grandson, Athelstan, pushed English power north as far as Scotland and was the first king to claim to be ...

Click to open image viewer. Eadweard Muybridge’s cyanotypes are working proofs (contact prints) made from the more than 20,000 negatives he took at the University of Pennsylvania from 1884 to 1886.

New research from the University of East Anglia (UEA) reveals that King Harold's legendary 200-mile march to the Battle of Hastings in 1066 never happened. Instead, the journey was made largely by sea ...