Enjoy a day out exploring the spacious grounds and estate of one of England’s grandest mansions, Audley End. Whether you’re exploring the servants wing, state rooms, stables, kitchen garden or ...

Fighting on foot, the English army at the Battle of Hastings could not withstand the charges of the mounted Norman knights, who were protected by long chainmail hauberks (tunics) and armed with spears ...

Well house and ground floor of museum are accessible to visitors in wheelchairs. Due to the steep stairs the wall walk, and the upper floor of museum, are inaccessible to wheelchair users.

When people began to farm the land in about 4000 BC and to settle in permanent territories, they started to place their dead in huge communal tombs. West Kennet Long Barrow in Wiltshire and Uley Long ...

The first episode of our second series travels to 1660 to meet Margaret Cavendish, a prolific writer and philosopher who challenged conventions for women through her intellectual ideas, dress, and ...

Journey back in time at Grime’s Graves, as you descend nine metres below ground into Britain’s only open Neolithic flint mine. In the pit, a multi-sensory digital projection will immerse you in the ...

The forts and defences we care for tell the stories of England's defiance of a whole range of enemies, Scots, French, Spanish, Dutch and German, over nearly five centuries. Many of them were updated ...

1066 was a turbulent year for England. King Edward the Confessor died on 5 January leaving no direct heirs and the country threatened with invasion by two rival claimants, Harald Hardrada, King of ...

Harold, by contrast, had just won a hard-fought battle at Stamford Bridge, near York, where he had defeated another claimant to the English throne, Harald Hardrada, King of Norway, on 25 September.

The Battle of Hastings was fought on 14 October 1066 between the Norman army of Duke William of Normandy and an English army under King Harold. It lasted all day, and was exceptionally bloody even by ...