Elizabethan manor houses, Baroque palaces and impregnable fortresses: England has an extraordinarily rich legacy. Here are ...

Castle Howard, one of the grandest of English country houses, is taking the long way home. The domed Yorkshire residence, designed by Baroque architect John Vanbrugh for the third Earl of Carlisle ...

Dover Castle, Kent. The most iconic of all English fortresses, commanding the gateway to the realm for nine centuries, Dover Castle is the winner of the poll. Look out for…the newly-opened ‘Spur’ ...

Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

Hnefatafl (pronounced ‘neva tapl’) means ‘The King’s Table’ in Old Norse and is a game of tactics and skill. Archaeological evidence for this Viking board game has been found in warrior burials, at ...

Castle Howard, one of the grandest of English country houses, is taking the long way home. The domed Yorkshire residence, designed by Baroque architect John Vanbrugh for the third Earl of Carlisle, ...

Wherever you are in England, you’re never far away from one of English Heritage’s castles. The mighty walls of these fortresses have stood proud for many centuries, from Norman earthworks to ...

Wherever you are in England, you’re never far away from one of English Heritage’s castles. The mighty walls of these fortresses have stood proud for many centuries, from Norman earthworks to ...