Feared as savage invaders, the Huns posed a serious threat to Rome – but their goal wasn’t conquest, or Roman annihilation ...

In theory, putting down the rebels of the First Jewish Revolt should have been easy for the mighty Roman empire. But ...

The Great Heathen Army wasn’t a single unified force, but rather a shifting coalition of warbands whose multi-layered leadership helped it outmanoeuvre the Anglo-Saxons ...

Edmund Ironside was an ill-fated king during a violent and turbulent time in the history of the Anglo-Saxons. But is the ...

Have you ever sat around a dinner table or in a pub and rubbed your finger along the rim of a glass to make that eerie ...

But space travel is also a human endeavour. In the heavens as on Earth, that means it throws up stories that can be bizarre, ...

One method you likely haven’t tried is putting a cold apple on your head. But, centuries ago, the Tudors and other people of ...

When you think about the driving forces that contributed to progress in medieval Britain, you might think about the likes of mercantilism, war, and urbanisation. But there were other, less-obvious – ...

A cesspit isn’t where most people would choose to look to learn more about the story of the Middle Ages. Cesspits – lined shafts or dug-out pits designed to hold human waste – were a very ordinary ...