An archaeologist's MA research has revealed the probable find spot of one of the most impressive metal hoards from Roman Britain. It was hushed up by a Victorian ironmonger who obtained the hoard and whose foreman melted much of it down by accident historyfirst.com/victorian-map-…

A Roman dodecahedron unearthed on a community dig in Lincolnshire is the “find of a lifetime” and one of the finest examples of the rare mystery objects, archaeologists say historyfirst.com/mysterious-rom…

It was the most shocking loss of a Royal Navy warship in the Second World War, and may have been completely misunderstood. HMS Hood did not sink due to a “lucky hit” from Bismarck, but as a result of catastrophic metal fatigue, a new paper suggests historyfirst.com/hms-hood-sunk-…

Medals awarded to a British soldier who took part in one of the most audacious missions of the Second World War — a 48-day 4,000 mile round-trip commando raid on Singapore Harbour — are expected to make £60,000-£80,000 at auction historyfirst.com/medals-of-wels…

Remains of a man buried near a farmstead in Roman Britain may hold the first DNA evidence for the presence of Iranian-speaking Sarmatians in the province, scientists say. They suggest he may have been the son of a cavalryman deployed by Marcus Aurelius historyfirst.com/cambridgeshire…

Picasso had his vision for Guernica weeks *before* the bombing of the Basque town and its composition is based on three famous works by Francisco Goya and the war photographers Robert Capa and Chim Seymour, according to a radical reinterpretation historyfirst.com/picassos-guern…

An 1820s railway pub that predates the development of train stations is among 227 sites added to the National Heritage List for England in 2023. Such pubs, modelled on coaching inns, were in fact proto-railway stations, according to Historic England historyfirst.com/railway-pub-th…

Ancestry from early medieval Slavic migrations is widespread right across the Balkans, including in Greece and other countries that do not have Slavic national identities, according to the first major study of ancient and modern DNA from the region historyfirst.com/medieval-slavi…

An obelisk in Yorkshire celebrating the achievements of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, who introduced smallpox inoculation to Britain in the 18th century, has been awarded a higher listing status and named as one of England’s most important historic sites historyfirst.com/obelisk-to-lad…

A hoard discovered by a metal detectorist in Norfolk (and up for sale) dates from the early 5th century and includes an ultra-rare coin of Theodosius I depicting a phoenix and an unofficial copy of a coin of Arcadius possibly minted in Britain after 410 historyfirst.com/coin-hoard-bur…

Artefacts discovered in York *were* offerings from a Greek traveller whose exploratory mission to islands off the coast of 1st-century Britain is described by Plutarch. That's according to a study that supports an old identification that fell out of favour historyfirst.com/inscriptions-a…

Skins of Tasmanian tigers (thylacines) in a UK museum are reminders of ties between natural historians and colonial genocide and eradication of species, a study says. They were sent by a naturalist who traded rare human and animal remains for accolades historyfirst.com/tasmanian-tige…

A portrait of a 17th-century beauty hailed in her lifetime as 'Wonder of all thy Sex!' was given 'the Kylie Jenner treatment' by unimpressed Victorians who retouched her face to plump her lips etc. — according to conservators who have reversed the makeover historyfirst.com/surprise-true-…

'Exceptionally rare' drawings and paintings that show the First Indochina War and Vietnam War through the eyes of North Vietnamese soldier and war artist Pham Thanh Tam are coming up for auction in Britain historyfirst.com/rare-frontline…

A blue plaque to painters Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant will today join the plaque to their fellow Bloomsbury Group member John Maynard Keynes at 46 Gordon Square, London, making the Regency townhouse the marker scheme's 20th 'double blue' historyfirst.com/second-blue-pl…

A gold ring discovered in Sussex by a metal detectorist who mistook it for 'a cheap funfair item' has been identified as an exceptional 9th or 10th-century piece historyfirst.com/ring-mistaken-…

It is a once-in-a-generation chance to look into the eyes of dozens of Tudor courtiers who seem so real they might blink or cough. A new exhibition at The Queen’s Gallery in London is the largest UK show of art by Hans Holbein the Younger in over 15 years historyfirst.com/rarely-seen-ho…