Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chemical and DNA evidence reveal England was never isolated, with steady migration shaping communities for seven centuries.

While many believed that medieval societies were racially homogeneous, research in the field has indicated that they were actually much more diverse. “This work provides really compelling ...

The period is good and bad, transparent and opaque, only hazily understood—but ultimately the opposite of what we want our ...

From lost silver coins to fossilised faeces, medieval cesspits have become some of the richest archives of everyday life in ...

Lindy Grant is a member of the Conseil Scientifique for the Projet Tapisserie de Bayeux. Why does Kent seem the likely place of manufacture? The embroidery craftsmen and (especially) women of ...

England was never as isolated as many history books once suggested. New research shows that people moved into and across England steadily for centuries, arriving from places as distant as the ...