Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Georgia Somary wants to turn people’s homes into “contemporary castles”, where historically inspired decor ...

Medieval armor has a bad reputation when it comes to how much movement is possible for a fully-armored and outfitted knight. Chances are you’ve bought into the notion that it resulted in clunky, slow, ...

As if flying arrows and burning pitch weren't enough to worry about, medieval knights also had to battle their own armor. A new study that put armor-wearing volunteers on treadmills finds that wearing ...

No one was more surprised than medieval armourer Matthew Finchen. One of the most memorable looks from all of London Fashion Week was not made in an airy studio in Stoke Newington, but crafted with a ...