Today's nation of Scotland was forged in the ninth century following the union of Dal Riada and the Picts, plus the later addition of Strathclyde. The House of Alpin formed the first dynasty, with ...

Castles, the now-lavish, over-dimensioned historical structures, were built at a time when muscle-fuelled weaponry was the front and centre in battles and invasions. The European continent boasts some ...

As humans, uncertainty is something we have to deal with daily. For most people, the best they can do is hope. We know only the present and the past; the future forever eludes us. That's the whole ...

Bolenna Primitive Methodist Chapel sat in the small hamlet of Bolenna, to the south of Perranporth when leaving that village via St Michael's Church (see links). The chapel's precise location has been ...

The country of Wales (or Cymru in the Welsh language) did not exist as a concept until the unconquered British were eventually hemmed into the westernmost regions of the country by the invading Angles ...

Sub-Roman Britannia underwent rapid change in the course of fifty years between AD 550-600. At the start of this period, the Angle and Saxon kingdoms on the east and south coasts were firmly ...

The Medes, or Medians, were a collection of Indo-Iranian tribes which entered the area of the northern Zagros Mountains from the start of the first millennium BC, during the period of instability and ...

Lagash (modern Tell al-Hiba) was also known as Sirpurla by the Sumerians, and was located to the north-west of the confluence of the Euphrates and Tigris. Home to the E-Ninnu temple - the shrine of ...

The Kedarites were another nomadic Arabic people, just like their cousins, the Nabataeans. They occupied the desert regions of eastern Syria and present day Jordan, on the edge of the Levant. Also ...

With the expulsion of Roman officials in AD 409 (see feature link), Britain again became independent of Rome and was not re-occupied. The fragmentation which had begun to emerge towards the end of the ...

This map of Britain concentrates on British territories and kingdoms which were established during the fourth and fifth centuries, as the Saxons and Angles began their settlement of the east coast. It ...

The former Britons, their post-Roman civilisation having collapsed to a very large extent, had transformed in just two centuries into the Early Welsh, their language changing considerably to reflect ...