St John the Evangelist, Broadclyst, sits towards the north-west of the Church Lane and Church Close side roads, at the north-west corner of the village. It is notable for its tower of the 1500s which ...

The city of Girsu survives today as the archaeological mound of Telloh or Tello. It was located approximately twenty-five kilometres to the north-west of Lagash. Potentially, as one of a group of the ...

Gambling is a popular leisure activity in many countries. In the modern world, a vast amount of entertainment is available: original and modernized versions of various games. However, their history ...

Las Vegas is known as the world's casino capital, and it is visited by tens of millions of tourists every year. It is associated with a large number of gambling establishments, an atmosphere of ...

The former St Andrew Marsh Green was (and still is) located on the south side of the main lane in this small village, with ...

It was the Romans who coined the name 'Gaul' to describe the Celtic tribes of what is now France and Belgium, quite possibly based on an original form of the word 'Celt' itself (see feature link).

The Hellenic empire was created by Alexander the Great, king of Macedonia, in his conquests between 334-326 BC. Essentially it encompassed all of the territory which was now under Macedonian control, ...

Faced with an economic downturn in the second half of the fourth century and various barbarian raids and more serious incursions, Roman Britain exhibited a marked decline in fortunes. Various internal ...

With the expulsion of Roman officials in AD 409 (see feature link), Britain again became independent of Rome and was not re-occupied. The fragmentation which had begun to emerge towards the end of the ...

The Germanic tribes seem to have originated in a homeland in southern Scandinavia (Sweden and Norway, with the Jutland area of northern Denmark, along with a very narrow strip of Baltic coastline).

In general terms, the Romans coined the name 'Gaul' to describe the Celtic tribes of what is now central, northern, and eastern France. To the north of these were the tribes of the Belgae, divided ...

One of those tribes was known as the Drangians, from which the region gained its name. They have also been referred to as the Sarangians, Drangae, and Zarangae, and are claimed as being subjects of ...