Behind the castles, knights and fantasy legends of medieval England stood a harsh world shaped by disease, brutal warfare, rigid class structures, religious control and constant struggle for survival.

Medieval England was not only far more prosperous than previously believed, it also actually boasted an average income that would be more than double the average per capita income of the world’s ...

A series of 'bone biographies' created by a major research project tell the stories of medieval Cambridge residents as recorded on their skeletons, illuminating everyday lives during the era of Black ...

In the 19th century, archaeologists in England unearthed remains that dated to the era after Roman rule, which ended around 400 C.E. The items revealed a shift from Roman artifacts to those ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

A University of Cambridge research team has mapped murders that took place around the 14 th century to create interactive murder maps of three English cities. Using preserved coroner and inquest ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. The long-held assumption about Medieval rulers has been that they ate copious amounts of meat, but new ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The historical record is a little vague but there’s every chance that, more than 500 years ago, knights with ...

Chances are that when you hear the words “medieval magic”, the image of a witch will spring to mind: wizened old crones huddled over a cauldron containing unspeakable ingredients such as eye of newt.