Portchester Castle is one of the most impressive historic sites in Britain, but its story begins long before the medieval castle was built. Hidden within its walls are the remains of a Roman fort that ...

Explore the history and charm of Dorset dialect, from William Barnes to Alan Chedzoy’s a bit of a bumble, and learn how locals have kept the ...

The Cerne Abbas Giant's origins remain shadowy, with British research revealing that it was likely carved during between 700 ...

Dorset is home to the steep, cobbled Gold Hill, made famous by an iconic 1970s Hovis bread commercial, poet and novelist Thomas Hardy, the Jurassic Coast and a 180ft (55m) hill figure depicting a nude ...

In 2018 a big fat book returned to England, where it had been written, for the first time in 1,302 years. The Laurentian Library in Florence was lending, for an exhibition at the British Library, the ...

Archaeologists have uncovered a second oven during their fourth dig at a "significant" Anglo-Saxon site. The field, near ...

Each of us tells a story about who we are, often tracing our identity back through an imagined line of ancestors. Though identity is fundamentally cultural, we tend to anchor it in biology—in the idea ...

As the Bayeux Tapestry comes to London, the year 1066 and the Norman Conquest are in the spotlight. The tapestry – an embroidered cloth nearly 70 metres long, created soon after the events it depicts ...

England’s Midlands region was once the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Mercia. Its most powerful ruler set a new standard for political control.

Far from the main action, the Spanish fought to reclaim Southern territory from the British, tying up their forces and aiding ...

Princess Diana's younger brother, Charles Spencer, has found love again. The 9th Earl Spencer married Norwegian archaeologist ...