Stone Age

People visit the prehistoric monument Stonehenge in January 2022

Stonehenge: a historian’s guide to visiting the stones

Crowds gather to watch the summer solstice sunrise at the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge, 2019

Opinion “Stonehenge is no longer a Neolithic monument – it is a pop culture phenomenon”

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

A panorama of the man-made Neolithic structure Silbury Hill in Wiltshire

Explore Silbury Hill & Avebury, the site of Neolithic Britons

An aerial photo of Stonehenge

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

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"

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?

Old Norse: Page from the manuscript Codex Regius, which was written in Iceland and contains the poems of elder Edda. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

Blog Medieval matters #1: The Last Kingdom, Robin Hood and how to learn Old Norse in lockdown

Black and white image depicting engraving of Julius Caesar.

Q&A What is the earliest evidence for a battle in Britain?

An Amesbury resident at the turnstile for Stonehenge, 1935 (© Wiltshire Swindon History Centre and J Fuller)

In pictures Stonehenge tourism through history

10,000 BC participants in their Mesolithic-style camp. (Channel 5)

Back to the Stone Age: would you survive?

Aerial view of the Roman fort of Vercovicium

10 places where history was made