A recently completed 12-year study of the Battle of Brandywine highlights historic landscapes and other battle sites.

Welcome to the newly relaunched History Hit YouTube channel! For our first video we’ve recreated the Battle of Hastings using the video game Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia. We’re releasing this ...

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It has survived fires, bankruptcy and scandal, not to mention 153 years of lashing British weather, but now Hastings’ “peerless pier”, as it was hailed at its grand opening, faces a new twist in its ...

Despite the BBC series King and Conqueror, the series omitted the first and largest autumn battle of that year, which is frequently mentioned in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicles. The book, "1066 Fulford, ...

King & Conqueror begins where it ends: with the Battle of Hastings in 1066. It’s a clash of armies led by two men, each determined to rule England and control the course of history – but just how ...

The Battle of Hastings in 1066 stands as a watershed moment in British history, reshaping the trajectory of the nation for centuries to come. Prior to this pivotal clash, England was a patchwork of ...

Every day has a history hidden behind it. Have you ever wondered what stories lie in a date? On October 14, many moments shaped our world — battles, trials, breakthroughs, and honours. On that day, in ...

When it came to the sighting of comets and meteors, experienced as eerie apparitions in the sky, ancient cultures understood them as omens sent by the gods. Without the benefits of modern-day science ...