Another well-known prisoner was William Wallace, the Scottish patriot who rebelled against English rule and whose life was ...
The Tower is back with its busiest year yet, marking D-Day with a huge celebration, revealing why Sir Walter Raleigh was locked up and saying goodbye to its much-loved Deputy Governor.
With over 1,000 years of history it has been a fortress, a Royal palace and home to the Crown Jewels. But the Tower of London has also been a forbidding prison, with everything from Nazi spies to ...
The Tower of London findings could rewrite history. The stone fortress was built by William the Conqueror in the 1070s to guard his power and houses the crown jewels. The tower is steeped in tragic ...