History, research and the stories beneath your feet.

Explore eight ancient British tribes through the towns, forts and archaeology that reveal how they encountered the Roman conquest of Britain.

Tadwick in 1086: What the Domesday Book Reveals About This Somerset Settlement

What the Domesday Book Tells Us About Oxted, Surrey

Worcestershire in 1086 presents one of the most ecclesiastically dominated Domesday landscapes in Norman England. Of the county's 260 recorded settlements, the

Iron Age hillforts are among the most dramatic and enduring monuments in the British landscape — massive fortified enclosures built from roughly 800 BC onwards

Marston, Leicestershire: Wealth, Lords and People in Norman England

Norman Warwickshire: What the Domesday Book Tells Us

Roman Rochester — known to the Romans as Durobrivae — was a fortified small town built at the point where Watling Street crossed the River Medway in Kent. The R

The Domesday Survey of Buckinghamshire: What the Records Reveal

The Harrying of the North: Domesday's Evidence for William's Devastation

Droitwich in Roman Britain: The Salt Capital of the Province

Domesday research transforms metal detecting by identifying where wealth, power and human activity were concentrated in medieval England — giving detectorists a