When it comes to the biggest questions about British history, there is perhaps none more frequently asked than who were the best (and worst) monarchs. YouGov asked the public for their opinion.
London is a city people think they know before they arrive. They come for the skyline, where glass towers stand shoulder to ...
The remains of King Harold II, who died at the famed Battle of Hastings, have never been found. But thanks to the Bayeux ...
Bayeux Tapestry shows 58 scenes from William’s 1066 conquest Features Harold's death and William’s victory in the Battle of Hastings Preserved medieval artwork to be housed in a new museum by 2027 ...
Charles I was crowned in Westminster Abbey on 2nd February 1626. Due to religious difficulties his wife was not crowned with him For the first time ever at a coronation the anthem "I was glad" was ...
Rabble Theatre in Reading has been awarded £30,000 by Arts Council England to produce a new play about William the Conqueror ... inside the ruins of Reading Abbey in 2023. Rabble said in a ...
At Westminster Abbey, in 1989, he took part in Bruce Wood’s modern recreation of the ceremonial music of Henry Purcell and John Blow that was used at the Coronation of William of Orange and his wife, ...
William McKinley, the 25th president, loved tariffs and expanded American territory. What more do you need to know? William McKinley campaigning in 1896, when he was governor of Ohio.Credit ...
The Duke of Westminster has sold a £306million stake in his Mayfair estate to Norway’s oil fund. In the largest deal the billionaire aristocrat’s property company Grosvenor has ever struck ...
Welcome to Westminster Abbey. Daily prayer has been offered in this place for over a thousand years, and your participation in today's service is warmly welcomed. At choral Evensong most of the ...
And there endeth the extent of my withering-on-the-vine schoolgirl French that is applicable when it comes to writing about sport – a shame, because that Prince William of ours has just zipped ...