A medieval manor house in Manchester is to be handed over to a building preservation trust, to allow it to be restored and ...

The annual summer festival returns to Castle Cornet on Sunday Islanders will be treated to an annual summer fete in a celebration of Castle Cornet's medieval history on Sunday. The Fete d'Etai, which ...

Today, the Middle Ages are a sort of paradox; the myth of the “Dark Ages,” which survives quite ably in popular culture, allows space for it to be whatever the popular imagination wants. When people ...

The centuries-old dessert evolved from medieval porridge to a festive Christmas staple, with modern cooks keeping the ...

Christmas pudding is a relatively recent concoction of two older, at least medieval, dishes. The first was a runny porridge ...

The 14th-century, English-made Asante Ewer was seized from the royal palace in Kumasi in 1896 and has been held by the ...

Scene from the Bayeux Tapestry, which famously depicts William the Conqueror's victory over the so-called Anglo-Saxons Public domain via Wikimedia Commons People in the United States and Great Britain ...

This historic city is often overlooked by those planning a staycation in the UK, but it has so much to see, and is surrounded ...

The past is never dead,” wrote William Faulkner. “It’s not even past.” Sometimes it is tempting to wish it all away, as it is used as a stick to beat us with. But we can’t just start afresh. For one ...

In medieval England, peasants on some estates were entitled to a range of sick, annual and bereavement leave that could rival ...

A Medieval English manor house with its own 13th-century chapel and a swimming pool has hit the market for £2 million (US$2.592 million). Tax records for the five-acre estate known as Fardel Manor, in ...