In a 2002 BBC discussion on the Celts, Scottish historian Alistair Moffat inveighed against theories that the Celts of the Iron Age and the “Celts” of modern-day Scot- land, Wales, and Ireland ...

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Explore Halloween facts to learn about the spooky holiday celebrated annually in the United States on October 31.

The maps show that Celts are most dominant in areas of Ireland, Scotland and Wales. But, contrary to popular myth, the Celtic clan is also strongly represented elsewhere in the British Isles.

The Ancient Gaelic Celts were herdsmen, and as such their lives revolved around their cattle, horses, and sheep, so the festival marked the beginning of a new livestock cycle.

Halloween’s roots lie in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain, celebrated over 2,000 years ago, which began in the area that is now Ireland, northern France, and the United Kingdom.

There is a theory that the Celts are descended from one of the ten lost tribes of Israel, the tribe of Dan. Proponents of the theory, in historical essays and elsewhere, point to various parallels ...

Graham Robb is an ambling historian. His best-known book, “The Discovery of France,” was based on his travels over 14,000 miles of road by bicycle. France, he argued, is not the culturally ...

The ancient Celts were fierce warriors who lived in mainland Europe. But during the Renaissance, an idea took hold that they lived in the British Isles.