“Our skipper said ‘Have you ever dived this mark? We said, ‘No, because it’s rubbish, there’s nothing there,’” Bournemouth ...

In medieval England, peasants on some estates were entitled to a range of sick, annual and bereavement leave that could rival those of many workers in the UK today.

What first looked like a scatter of junk on the seabed off southern England has turned out to be one of the most revealing ...

Major restoration work is under way to secure a historic harbour and quay. Historic England said essential conservation work ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

There are many a reason why tourists flock to London, and gorgeous as it may be, with its iconic red telephone boxes and gorgeous Victorian-era architecture, be under no illusion: being the global ...

Today's benefit system helps those who are unemployed, who have children or who are disabled. But in Medieval England things were a bit different, according to a new study. Researchers have shone a ...

Oxford was the murder capital of late-medieval England, with the city’s male university population being the main catalyst for violence, according to new research. The homicide rate in the city was ...

It's long been assumed that England's Medieval rulers ate copious amounts of meat. The scientific analysis of thousands of skeletons shows the diets of the pre-Viking rulers were "flexitarian." Feasts ...

Many mainstream economic historians do believe the average number of working days for peasant laborers in England hovered around, and even sometimes below, 150 days per year for certain stretches of ...