A More Dynamic Past “Taken together, the evidence paints early medieval England as a place of constant change. People arrived from near and far, stayed for a time or settled permanently, and shaped ...

Isotope analysis reveals that social status and wealth had a profound impact on diet in medieval England, showing that people ...

Humans were migrating to early medieval England from much further afield than scientists once thought. Genetic analysis at a cemetery in Dorset and another in Kent has now revealed the skeletons of ...

The earliest description of cancer is from an ancient Egyptian papyrus, and going back further, even dinosaurs suffered a form of the disease. But cancer long has been thought to have become a common ...

Discovered with the Galloway Hoard in Scotland, a gold-wrapped rock crystal jar includes the name of a previously unknown bishop from medieval Britain. Neil Hanna / National Museums Scotland Wrapped ...

They were the Jimmy Choos of their day. Known as poulaines, pointy leather shoes were the height of fashion in 14th century Britain. Medieval men and women about town, however, suffered for their ...

The National Endowment for the Humanities summer institute for higher education faculty "Law and Culture in Medieval England" is hosted by Western Michigan University. Due to the ongoing health crisis ...

England was never as isolated as many history books once suggested. New research shows that people moved into and across England steadily for centuries, arriving from places as distant as the ...

Map of regions in early medieval England and their proportional make up of Δ18Odw-MAP (Chenery) value classifications. (CREDIT: Medieval Archaeology) While male migration was more frequent overall, ...