The effigy head of the founder of the Tudor dynasty is one of the finest examples of its kind to have survived to the present ...

William Adelin-the grandson of William the Conqueror and the heir to the thrones of England and Normandy-died at the age of ...

Westminster Abbey is undertaking a new project using the latest 3D technology to scan the funeral effigy head of Henry VII - ...

A remarkably lifelike effigy head of King Henry VII is currently being scanned by Westminster Abbey to try and work out how ...

When it comes to the biggest questions about British history, there is perhaps none more frequently asked than who were the best (and worst) monarchs. YouGov asked the public for their opinion.

Henry, the second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, was born on 28 June 1491 at Greenwich Palace. After the death of his elder ... an opportunity to invade England, they were defeated ...

George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, spent his life engaged in a power struggle that pitted cousins and siblings against ...

A major episode of the Hundred Years' War, the Battle of Agincourt pitted French troops against the army of King Henry V of ...

Every February 14, across the United States and in other places around the world, candy, flowers and gifts are exchanged between loved ones, all in the name of St. Valentine. But who is this ...

Over the years you may have wondered, maybe why standing in a long line waiting to buy expensive chocolates or flowers, or ...

Historian Gareth Russell has written Queen James, a biography of King James VI and I - the last king of Scotland - who moved to London ...

Henry L. Marsh III, the first Black mayor of Richmond and a figure who embodied the rise of African American power in the city, died Thursday night at 91. Marsh, a civil rights lawyer, was ...