In the aftermath of the Great Heathen Army's conquest, a new map of Britain was taking shape, forged from the collision of Norse ambition, Saxon resilience, and forgotten Brittonic kingdoms. From the ...

Created for Mary I, the first woman to rule England in her own right, the book is “perhaps the most significant artifact of Tudor intellectual history still in private hands,” the seller says Cool ...

Reflecting worries that the French might invade, the first OS maps cover the mouth of the river Thames. This is the naval route to London and a highly vulnerable part of the country. The sheets that ...

A faded medieval map of Britain may reveal evidence of "long lost" islands detailed in Welsh mythology, a new study finds. Researchers discovered the "missing" islands after analyzing the 650-year-old ...

A research centre had mapped out Britain's genetic make-up and, in the process, revealed some interesting facts about the historical origins of its citizens. In particular, the map created by the ...