Discusses knighthood in the middle ages.

The days when the answer to any offence given was to challenge the offender to a duel are happily long gone, but for centuries, hundreds died in the name of so-called honorable mortal combat.

Academics at the University of Dundee in Scotland have managed to re-create the face of a Viking woman, whose skeleton was discovered in York 30 years ago.

What is Englishness really? Does it even exist? Or are we nothing more than mongrels?

Clifford’s Tower was a keep within the fortified York Castle in northern England. Until the early 20th century it had been used as a castle, prison and court of law. The final building to be standing on the site was demolished in 1935. It became famous for an incident in the year 1190 and this became known as the Clifford’s Tower Massacre.

This is a list of all the tribes and people that migrated to Britain (1,000 BC – 1945 AD)

It states when they migrated, where from and why?

A brief description of the causes, course and aftermath of the Battle of Hastings.

1066 is a date lodged in the minds of Englishmen everywhere, but were the Anglo-Saxons really barbaric and the Norman’s civilized? What was the result of the clash of two cultures a millennium ago?

Did you think that King Harold died at Hastings in 1066 from an arrow in the eye? Well, you were taught wrong.