General prehistory

Tourists at Stonehenge. We have no better idea today than 200 years ago what the people who erected these sarsens truly believed. (Getty Images)

General prehistory

Prehistoric religion: a pagan riddle we will never solve?

Francis Pryor explores the sensory world of prehistoric Britain. (Image by Getty Images)

General prehistory

Inside the prehistoric mind

Alice Roberts, author of Ancestors: A Prehistory of Britain in Seven Burials

General prehistory

Alice Roberts “Graves are like time capsules – little microcosms of prehistoric culture"

Alice Roberts reveals what archaeological discoveries and cutting-edge science can reveal about Britain’s prehistoric past.

General prehistory

Unearthing Britain’s prehistoric secrets

Barry Cunliffe considers the story of Brittany from prehistory to today, and explores the region’s connections with Britain. (Image by Getty Images)

General prehistory

Bretons, Britons, Celts & King Arthur

Zdeněk Burian’s painting from 1952 offers a sympathetic portrayal of Neanderthals practising cannibalism. Self-assurance, even contentment, emanate from “It appears as a calm response to death, rather than murderous carnage,” writes Rebecca Wragg Sykes. (Photo by Time Life Pictures/Mansell/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images)

General prehistory

Neanderthal in the mirror: our changing perceptions of these ancient humans

A statue of Tollund Man, a bog body from the Iron Age. (Photo by Getty Images)

General prehistory

Q&A What are bog bodies?

An aerial photo of Stonehenge

Your guide to Stonehenge, plus 12 fascinating facts you might not know

The Eridge Hunt, Boxing Day 1952. (Photo by REX/Associated Newspapers)

A brief history of Boxing Day

A Neanderthal skull and some of the tools used by the Neanderthals. (Photo by Getty Images)

General prehistory

A brief history guide to Neanderthals, plus 7 fascinating facts

Head and shoulders of a sculpted model of a female Neanderthal

General prehistory

The Neanderthals: everything you wanted to know

An 18th-century marble relief depicting Julius Caesar invading Britain by John Deare, a British neo-classical sculptor. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

General ancient history

Geoffrey of Monmouth: the lost voice of ancient Britain

Battle of Culloden

General prehistory

10 things you (probably) didn’t know about Scottish history

Newgrange Passage Tombs, Boyne Valley, County Meath, Ireland. (Photo by Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #9: Do early medieval Irish texts shed light on prehistoric incest?

Stonehenge: Not a henge, but certainly a stone circle, and a very long-lived centre of human activity. (Getty Images)

Your guide to Britain’s prehistoric stone circles