King Henry III of France lived in an age of civil and religious unrest. While he tried to get a grip on the situation and keep France from imploding, his personal issues always seemed to get in the ...

Team seem to have collective amnesia over record thrashing two years ago but another humiliation by France could see axe fall ...

There has been an understandable reluctance bordering on a collective amnesia within the England camp to confront the reality ...

AN UNASSUMING house hides an incredible 800-year-old secret 60ft beneath its floorboards – and it could be yours for £1m. Beckets is a Grade II-listed house based in the village of Eastry in ...

Could we have been commemorating the wrong date of Magna Carta all along? Speaking on an episode of the HistoryExtra podcast, ...

The letter is on the move as part of the National Library of Scotland’s centenary celebrations. Written six hours before she was led to her death, the last letter penned by Mary Queen of Scots is now ...

The Reformation split the Church into Catholic and Protestant factions, creating two roads to salvation - both of which claimed to be true. So it was very important to people that the Scottish state ...

King Charles, the nominal commander in chief of the U.K. armed forces, directed that the Royal Navy's newest upcoming nuclear attack submarine be renamed.

The Adobe Flash player and Javascript are required in order to view a video which appears on this page. You may wish to download the Adobe Flash player.

A sea captain and namesake of Conyngham Borough so harassed merchant ships that the English hesitated to sail around their ...