A human skeleton found in a box in the basement of Eastbourne town hall in 2012, has, not for the first time, caused some controversy. Known as the ‘Beachy Head Lady’, her remains were discovered duri...

Since the Romans themselves wrote about the subject, we have a clear idea of the good things they did for Britain. Roads, towns, stone and brick buildings, plumbing, writing (IOUs), vineyards and leat...

Baked sediment, heat-shattered artefacts and introduced pyrite in a 400,000-year-old Palaeolithic occupation site in Suffolk, UK provide evidence of intentional fire-making, marking a pivotal moment i...

After decades of searching, archaeologists have finally been able to argue convincingly that early humans made, not just used, fire, 400,000 years ago, long before Homo sapiens had evolved. This is a big discovery. The evidence comes from Barnham in Suffolk, in eastern England, where many important early sites have been investigated. It consists of heated sediments, fire-cracked flint including handaxes, and two iron pyrite fragments (thought to have been brought in from elsewhere) for making the all-important sparks, all in the same area in one part of the site.

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The National Trust, Europe’s largest conservation charity, found themselves in the midst of a bitterly unfolding ‘culture war’ over public histories of slavery, empire and colonialism in Britain follo...

Archaeological works in 2026 will explore Marlborough Mound’s hidden history as modern structures are carefully removed.

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Ethnohistoric and recent archaeological evidence suggest that Rapa Nui (Easter Island, Chile) was a politically decentralized society organized into small, relatively autonomous kin-based communities ...

Other lives: Primary school teacher who set up a local history society in the Oxfordshire town of Faringdon

You may have heard that Ken Follett’s next novel is about Stonehenge. When a writer of Follett’s profile and reach tackles this subject, we have to take notice: he claims to have sold 195 million c…

Museum director, author and historian behind controversial display of Billy Connolly’s banana boots at the People’s Palace, dies aged 76

She became a celebrity in Kentish Town, where a café was named after her book The Fields Beneath and a local ale christened Tindall on Tap