More speculation: It’s from Roman Saturnalia, Druidic rites in Britain, the medieval celebration of the Feast of Fools, or ...

Harry Redknapp's attempts at comedy made England look very small, as did the audience's guffawing reaction to his words at a ...

The Durotriges Project is an intensive, multi-disciplinary investigation into the prehistoric and Roman societies of central southwestern Britain, conducted by staff and students of the Department of ...

Whatever the reasons for its inception, the wall stood as one of the largest construction projects carried out in Roman Britain. It was also rebuilt and ... had a most troubled history. Built with sub ...

As the year of celebrations marks 200 years since the opening of the Stockton & Darlington Railway in 1825, Dr Joseph Brennan ...

393AD Olympic Games abolished by decree of the Roman Emperor Theodosius ... France, Germany, Great Britain Greece, Hungary, Norway, Russia, Sweden and USA. 1913 The second IAAF Congress sees the ...

Among the items are sandals, pottery and Britain's largest collection of Roman writing tablets, bearing IOU notes and gossip ...

The hole full of bones—the largest ritual deposit discovered of its kind dating to the Roman Britain period—gives archaeologists hints about the ways that conquered British did—and didn’t ...

It began, as many great discoveries do, with a metal detectorist and a lucky beep. In December 2021, Peter Heads stumbled upon what would turn out to be one of the largest and most significant ...

BETTANY HUGHES: Close on 2,000 years ago, the Romans arrived in Britain. They ruled over our nation for almost 400 years, bringing with them Roman soldiers with deadly weaponry to build defensive ...