While Gainford enjoys a tranquil rural setting, it remains well-connected. The A67 provides easy access to nearby towns such as Darlington and Barnard Castle, and the village's location allows for ...

Three consecutive years of drought contributed to the "Barbarian Conspiracy," a pivotal moment in the history of Roman ...

The Spanish word for Easter is Pascua. In Italian, it’s Pasqua. French speakers have Pâques. All of these words derive from ...

Community archaeological digs across the village have unveiled more of it's rich history, including the discoveries of Bronze Age pottery, an Iron Age brooch, fine Roman pottery, and an Anglo-Saxon ...

The British academic publisher, Routledge, has launched “Routledge Revivals” to re-issue some classic works that have been long out of print. Originally published in 1983, Barbarians and Romans is a ...

Displays spanning two million years of history across six continents sit in the museum from the Rosetta Stone, ancient ...

Rupert Parker sets out on foot and discovers culture and history on the beautiful Dorset coast I always believe the best way of exploring a place is on foot and Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole ...

At least, you won't find it on the map of ceremonial counties ... The origins of the lost country stretch back to Anglo-Saxon times, when this was the realm of the Middle Saxons (in relation ...

Tithe maps and their accompanying awards can be particularly useful for studying local and community history, providing a record of the landscape and its inhabitants as they stood in the mid-19 th ...

Google Maps is one of the apps that gets the most love from Google in terms of regular updates, and we've spotted another couple of upgrades rolling out to the mapping app in recent days ...

Google Maps now shows parking difficulty, gas savings, and arrival time in the route overview window itself. It saves you the time and effort you'd otherwise spend digging through the app for ...