History

Telegraph News: Historians locate King Arthur's Round Table. Researchers exploring the legend of Britain’s most famous Knight believe his stronghold of Camelot was built on the site of a recently discovered Roman amphitheatre in Chester.  Legend has it that his Knights would gather before battle at a

BBC News: Huge Anglo-Saxon gold hoard found. The UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure has been discovered buried beneath a field in Staffordshire.  Experts said the collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces, which may date back to the 7th Century, was unparalleled in size.  It has

BBC News: Oldest ring of bells played again. For the first time in almost 25 years, Ipswich is waking up to a unique medieval sound.  The Suffolk town's St Lawrence Church houses the oldest circle of church bells in the world.  The five bells have been silent since

BBC News: 'Oldest musical instrument' found. Scientists in Germany have published details of flutes dating back to the time that modern humans began colonising Europe, 35,000 years ago. The flutes are the oldest musical instruments found to date.  The researchers say in the Journal Nature that music

BBC News: 'Superguns' of Elizabeth I's navy. The English navy at around the time of the Armada was evolving revolutionary new tactics, according to new research.  Tests on cannon recovered from an Elizabethan warship suggest she carried powerful cast iron guns, of uniform size, firing standard

BBC News: Free the Gunpowder Plot One. Was one of the Gunpowder Plotters an innocent victim of circumstance? As effigies of Guy Fawkes again go up in flames, is it time to rectify a 400-year-old miscarriage of justice? After the failed attempt to blow up Parliament in November 1605, Henry