Shakespeare says in Twelfth Night "Some are born great, some achieve greatness and others have greatness thrust upon them". Edward III is one of the latter, only recently being welcomed into the ...

18:52, Wed, Apr 10, 2024 Updated: 18:53, Wed, Apr 10, 2024 Ask the man or woman in the street who was England’s greatest monarch and the names Henry V, Elizabeth I, Alfred the Great and (rightly) ...

A researcher has found 12 medieval coins dating back to the 1300s while on a metal-detecting rally in Buckinghamshire. British Museum curator Barrie Cook said that there were only 12 known examples of ...

The effigy of the Black Prince in Canterbury Cathedral wasn’t ordered by his son Richard II until as much as a decade after his death in 1376, a study claims. The Black Prince, who lived between 1330 ...

Coins discovered by Mark Pallett (left) and Andy Carter have been sold at auction An "extremely rare and important" Edward III leopard gold coin found by a metal detectorist has sold for £174,600 at ...