In short, Wells is what Americans imagine England to be like. It's a rural arcadia steeped in history, the type of halcyon ...

Pinpointing the nation's oldest continuously inhabited home is a complex task, but Saltford House in Somerset might just hold ...

The Berkshire Eagle’s journalism earned 35 awards — including 11 first places — across a range of categories at the New England Newspaper & Press Association’s Better Newspaper Competition held ...

You’re a farmer in the Middle Ages. We’re talking 1000 A.D.-ish. Actually, they don’t call you a farmer but a “yeoman,” which is an antiquated way of saying, “you shovel ...

Elizabethan manor houses, Baroque palaces and impregnable fortresses: England has an extraordinarily rich legacy. Here are ...

"The critical point was, again the Middle Ages, and there you had an adversarial position between the church and the state ...

Legend has it, as recounted by the English Benedictine monk Matthew of Paris, that the energetic Pope Innocent IV died of a ...

IF you love a day out to a family theme park but not the price that goes with it, I’ve found an option where the cost is ...

Roughly 700 years ago, a French-language sequel to the legend of King Arthur known as the Suite Vulgate du Merlin became a ...

Tucked away in a leafy valley in the Cotswolds, Castle Combe is frequently dubbed the "prettiest village in England" - and ...

Mighty warhorses, as richly adorned and armoured as their knightly riders, are an immediately recognisable icon of the ...

As the world's population rapidly ages, a new study led by researchers at the Yale School of Public Health finds that people ...