The weight of 2024’s history books concentrates, as often in recent years, on the last century or so – though with revelatory ...

At the time, no other cities apart from London and Oxford supported this scale ... Christopher de Hamel, an expert on ...

Excavations by OCA during 2015 at Oxford Road, Thame revealed activity from the Neolithic to the Late Saxon period – some 6,000 years. This has now been published by OCA in two illustrated volumes.

Oxford University has offered a look inside the Bodleian Library with new photos on its 422nd anniversary. The Bodleian ...

A rare early masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico has been acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England ...

TikTok users were "fascinated" by the kitchen in a viral clip, with one commenting on "how much history lives inside these walls." ...

Displayed in a great hall in a building in downtown Rochester, a three-column work of stained glass—considered one of the finest in the country—depicts 2,000 years of medical history in 12 panels.

While studying abroad as a Yale student, I toured Oxford. The historic school and gothic design made it feel like I stepped ...

Spanish forces and their Indigenous allies captured Tenochtitlán in 1521, bringing the Aztec Empire’s reign to a close after less than a century. The White House, whose cornerstone was laid in 1792, ...

A historian has formally joined the ranks at Oxford University. Dr Tom Johnson succeeds Professor Ian Forrest as the Catto Fellow in Medieval History at Oriel College. The historian currently has a ...

This time of year, I often run across articles proclaiming Halloween a modern form of the pagan Irish holiday of Samhain (pronounced SAW-en).  But as a historian of Ireland and its medieval literature ...

Half-timbered houses, artistic wool towns and coastline strewn with beaches helped this English region onto the coverted ...