The towering castles that dot England’s landscape symbolize power, conquest, and control. For centuries, they have been ...

Archeologists recently unearthed the walls of a Norman castle under a prison basketball court in Gloucester, England. A team of archaeologists exposed a 12th century "castle keep wall" while ...

Join medieval historian Matt Lewis at his favourite fortress in the whole of Britain, Ludlow Castle. Built as a frontier ...

Thousands of visitors flock to UK castles each year, some with links to Harry Potter, others with a long history of sieges, but for two archaeologists from the University of York, the site of what was ...

A five-year renovation has transformed an 11th-century castle into the UK’s most accessible heritage attraction.

The site of a lost residence of King Harold, the last Anglo-Saxon King of England, has been discovered by researchers, thanks in part to the recontextualization of a historic latrine previously found ...

GLOUCESTERSHIRE, ENGLAND—Archaeologists have unearthed an early twelfth-century castle keep wall in the exercise yard at the site of Gloucester Prison, which closed in 2013. The medieval castle also ...

Shropshire was important to William because of its border with Wales. It took the invading Normans four years to suppress England, after which the threat of internal insurgency and attacks from abroad ...