Richard E. Maltby Jr. on his fifty years of writing puzzles for Harper’s Magazine, his side hustle as a musical lyricist and Tony Award–winning director, and the crossword’s place in contemporary Amer ...

In our new series, Charlotte Mullins explores the visual history of the British Isles in 50 treasures. Her second instalment ...

The formal date of England’s creation as a country is contested. Some say we turned 1,100 in 2025, marking the year when the ...

A groundbreaking bioarchaeological study from the Universities of Edinburgh and Cambridge has shattered long-held assumptions about medieval migration patterns into England. Rather than arriving in ...

Archaeologists recently uncovered the remains of a long-lost medieval village, thanks to pre-construction excavations for an ...

There are certain accoutrements that rulers across time appear to have agreed are necessary symbols of power. You probably want a crown, which might be made of precious metal, leaves, or possibly even ...

The January full moon was called the "Center Moon" by the Assiniboine people of the Northern Great Plains, according to the Farmer's Almanac, which noted that the name "refers to the idea that this ...

Introduced in the wake of the Norman Conquest, the murdrum fine was meant to protect Norman settlers from revenge killings.

Powered by coal and iron, it transformed the nation into the world’s workshop, while its navy secured global commerce. The triangular trade of the 1600s — raw materials and enslaved Africans taken ...

Americans, There is a cheeky Polish saying: where there are two Poles, there are three opinions. To which, one imagines, the ...

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