Artists and historians are hoping plans for a museum and art trail will help to mark a Viking clash that took place in ...

There are other European Easter traditions involving hares, including eating their meat and hunting them. One report from ...

King Charles III was crowned in Westminster Abbey, but this is not the only place where the ceremony has happened ...

Easter Sunday in 2025 will be observed on April 20, marking one of the most sacred and widely celebrated days in Christianity ...

Julian Richards The story of the Vikings in England is generally held to start on June 8, 793, when a raiding party landed on the tidal island of Lindisfarne in Northumbria. As the Anglo-Saxon ...

Did Easter come from an ancient Greek festival? Scholars have long linked the customs involved in this celebration with pagan festivals ...

Originally from Germany, Anglo-Saxons had invaded England almost six centuries earlier, after the Roman Empire had fallen into disarray. They established their own kingdoms and converted to ...

The Spanish word for Easter is Pascua. In Italian, it’s Pasqua. French speakers have Pâques. All of these words derive from ...

Hamburg was, literally, a dry run for what came later; the aim was to maximise the number of barbecued civilians by, among ...

The work of early Irish scholars and computists in developing mathematical tables helped to solve the thorny problems of ...

Some local towns and villages were mentioned in the Domesday Book - a survey of landholding in England in 1086 - while others ...