In reverse historical order, Domesday is the exemplum of what not to do, which is turn an average idea for In Our Time on Radio 4 into an hour-long documentary for the television. This is the greatest ...

The Anglo-Saxon period, also known as the ‘Dark Ages’ stretched from the withdrawal of Roman forces in 410 AD to the conquest of England by William of Normandy in 1066. The period is remembered by the ...

The return of the major series which rediscovers the Anglo-Saxons through vivid portraits of 30 individuals - women as well as men, famous and humble - written and presented by leading historians, ...

This gold strip carries the Latin inscription: "Rise up O Lord, and may thy enemies be dispersed and those who hate thee be driven from thy face." It has two sources, the Book of Numbers or Psalm 67, ...

Updates from your News topics will appear in My News and in a collection on the News homepage. The Essay. Bede, the Father of English History. Audio, 16 minutesThe Essay Bede, the Father of English ...

As the crow flies the Goblet travelled 2500 miles from Eygpt but by sea and land it probably had a longer journey.In 1827 a group of workmen planting trees on the hill top of Highdown, north-west of ...

BBC America’s powerful new historical drama “The Last Kingdom” tells the story that made England possible, and with it the flourishing of Anglo-Saxon culture and law that underpin America as well. The ...

Long before it became the top exporter of brooding BBC actors or steamed puddings, the United Kingdom was simply a cold, rocky island off the coast of Europe. It wasn’t until the arrival of ...

You hear the term everywhere these days in politics, pop music, business, even race relations. Anglo-Saxon. With the advent of the Human Genome Project, we now know a bit more about who the ...