November is St Edmund’s Day, celebrating the king and martyr who was once the patron saint of England. This is his story.
Dr Cat Jarman, a historian and archaeologist specialising in the Viking Age, reviews scenes from TV shows set in the Viking ...
He stormed through England with fire and steel, crushing kingdoms underfoot—until one king stood in his way. This is the saga of Guthrum, the Saxon-slayer.
Other Roman emperors met far more bloody ends than the cheese-loving Antoninus. Nero committed suicide; Galba was murdered by ...