Alfred the Great? William The Conquer? King Arthur??? Just a few contenders for the title of First King of England - but of ...

Often referred to as the world’s most famous medieval artwork, the Bayeux Tapestry is both ... or Harold II, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, at the Battle of Hastings. While the embroidery’s ...

In 1307, with Scotland in sight, Edward died at Burgh-on-Sands. The campaign for the conquest of Scotland passed on to his son, Edward II. The Scots were relieved to find that the brutal and effective ...

The equal rulers returned England to Protestant rule and began a new era of royal leadership defined by parliamentary oversight ...

Archaeologists have discovered the site of the long-lost palace of England’s last Anglo-Saxon king.

Harold Godwinson was the “last Anglo-Saxon King of England,” the university said ... study author Duncan Wright, a lecturer in medieval archaeology at Newcastle University, said in the ...

1500 the kings had introduced a more centralised system of justice and consistent punishment. In this video, historian Alice Loxton gives a summary of crime and punishment in medieval Britain.

Archaeologists have made a stunning breakthrough after discovering an 11th Centry medieval toilet that has helped to unravel a 2,000-year-old mystery. Researchers from the University of Exeter and the ...

Archaeologists from Newcastle University and the University of Exeter confirmed the location of the lost residence of Harold Godwinson, the last Anglo-Saxon king of England, in Bosham, West Sussex.

This famed piece of Medieval embroidery depicts the Norman Conquest of England in 1066 ... The Bayeux Tapestry, showing King Harold riding to Bosham, where he attends church and feasts in a ...