For centuries, the beautiful hilltop city of Siena rivalled nearby Florence in commerce, art, and culture. Medieval bankers and republican governors helped the city flourish, shaping the historic ...
To the English, Ireland was one of the frontiers of Europe, a land on the edge of civilisation, full of barbarians. It is little surprise, then, that Queen Elizabeth I’s courtiers observed Shane ...
The wrath of Charles V – the Holy Roman Emperor and Europe’s most powerful monarch – showed clearly around Siena during the early spring of 1555. Over the past four centuries, the Tuscan city – the ...
Commissioned on 14 December 1906, U-1 was the first in a long line of German U-boats (the name is a shortening of Unterseeboot, or ‘under-sea boat’). She was more of a trials vessel than an ...
Everyone is either an Athenian or a Spartan, it has been said. Athens is associated with art, reason, and democracy; the sort of place where liberals, intellectuals, and bohemians might have felt at ...
New research into a man buried at St Peter’s in Barton-upon-Humber almost 1,000 years ago has shed new light on the complexity of society in Britain during the Norman ...
‘I thought that it was all theatre, cooked up in the edit suite… but it really is as chaotic as it looks!’ Dr Gus Casely-Hayford joked on a sunny late September day in 2021. Sitting in a field of ...
Jacobitism was an important aspect of Britain during a formative part of its development. The risings had their origin in the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688, when James II of England, who was also ...
Restoration work at the Priory House in Dunstable – a Grade II-listed building that was originally part of the grounds of Dunstable Priory, founded by Henry I in 1132 ...
Fund, which helps volunteer and community groups to date their finds, has opened applications for its 2026 funding cycle. Kimberley Teale discusses key findings from some of the projects supported by ...
An assemblage of objects discovered at Peñico on the north-central coast of Peru, dating to 3,800 years ago, provides new evidence for the continuity of the Caral culture. Caral ...
Archaeologists from Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities have uncovered the remains of a residential city dating to the 4th and 5th centuries AD at the Ain Al-Sabil archaeological site ...
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