The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a contemporary historical ... circa A.D. 1020 to 1050. AKG-Images / British Library / The Image Works King Aethelred set in motion one of the most heinous acts of ...

The Domesday Book is a record of landholding in England from the reign of the Conqueror, surviving in its original manuscript ...

The site is the only known Scandinavian cremation cemetery in the British Isles ... island of Lindisfarne in Northumbria. As the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, a survey of English history written in ...

Gerbert seems to have taken the only copy of the Histories with him when he relinquished his claim to the see of Rheims and moved to the court of the Saxon ruler Otto III in ... absorbed into the ...

From the earliest writings in Anglo-Saxon to contemporary Irish, British, and ‘global’ literatures ... society and make use of innovative technologies and a world class library that enhances their ...

Three firms are expected to receiver tenders in the next few weeks for the chance to price the scheme to extend the British Library. Japanese developer Mitsui Fudosan has promised to start work next ...

When great Saxon lords delineated their land holdings they can little have guessed that their decisions would set off monumental rows 1,500 years later about local government reorganisation. Ask most ...

The British Steel plant in Scunthorpe has been saved following an emergency debate in Parliament over the future of the site. The rare Saturday sitting on April 12 saw both the House of Commons ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government said Tuesday that it had bought enough raw materials to ...

The Taliban detained a British couple in Afghanistan over a small matter and the courts will rule on it based on Islamic law, a government spokesperson said Tuesday, adding: “God willing ...

LONDON (AP) — The U.K. government said Tuesday that it had bought enough raw materials to keep Britain’s last steelmaking blast furnaces operating for the “coming weeks.” The announcement ...