In our secular age, most of us scoff at the supernatural. Consequently, it is difficult to put ourselves in the mindsets of ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World.

The Spanish word for Easter is Pascua. In Italian, it’s Pasqua. French speakers have Pâques. All of these words derive from pascha —both Latin and Greek for Passover, the Jewish festival during which ...

A popular (and often reported) tale goes that the Anglo-Saxon goddess of spring, Eostre (or the Germanic goddess Ostara ... Additionally, reports The Guardian, ancient skeletons of hares and chickens ...

Throughout 1940, in the year after Britain entered the Second World War ... “The Dutch are very, very good at bureaucratic compilation… There was an extraordinary thing called a dot map in Amsterdam… ...

Displays spanning two million years of history across six continents sit in the museum from the Rosetta Stone, ancient Egyptian objects, collections on African history and Anglo-Saxon artefacts.

Anglo Saxon helmet, one of the artefacts discovered at Sutton Hoo, Britain’s greatest ship burial site - David Lyons/Alamy Quarantine ... Inside Hughenden, Disraeli’s precious library and dining room ...

A Devon council is being asked to reconsider a planning application for a development near a Viking battle site after previously rejecting the proposals. Torridge District Council (TDC) turned ...

His first lengthy book, "Britain and the British Seas," had appeared in 1902 ... in order to create a giant transcontinental bloc capable of counterbalancing the two great Anglo-Saxon powers. . . .

New research reveals that geography may actually be a stronger influence on the brands we love and the traditions we follow than our age. And nowhere is this more apparent than in Britain’s iconic tea ...

It is Britain’s first public museum – featuring ... Similarly, fantasy author J.R.R. Tolkien, who taught Anglo-Saxon studies at Oxford, was often found in the gardens. The reserve is an ...