The annual Hallaton Bottle Kicking event took place Easter Monday and saw residents of the villages of Hallaton and Medbourne ...

The Saxons named the town Dornwaraceaster (the suffix - ceaster being the Old English name for a "Roman town"; cf. Exeter and Gloucester and Dornsæte came into use as the name for the inhabitants of ...

Most villages in England were not further than a day’s walk from a large church and castle. The king and the church dominated people’s lives, especially if they were one of the eight in ten ...

Here are some of the Old English names for places around Oxfordshire: The name “Oxford” comes from the Old English Oxenaforda, meaning “ford of the oxen”. This refers to a shallow crossing in the ...

Discover a link to slavery 300 years ago and everyone rushes to claim the moral high ground and demand compensation. But discover a link to slavery that's happening here and now and it seems no ...

The Jamuna River in Bangladesh regularly sweeps away entire villages. A team of researchers from Switzerland's ETH university is there studying what makes people decide to stay or move elsewhere ...