Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in ...

London was tiny when compared to today's modern cities, but much larger than any other English town at that time. In 1300, the population stood at approximately 80,000, all crammed into one square ...

First launched in 2018, Cambridge’s Medieval Murder Maps plots crime scenes based on translated investigations from 700-year-old coroners’ reports. These documents were recorded in Latinand are ...

Medieval Murder Maps is an interactive website that gives insight into how people were killed in medieval London, York and Oxford. We are going to travel back in time now to medieval England, thanks ...

On Monday, Oct. 28, from 5 to 6 p.m., Prof. Lauren Fogle of the History Department will be giving a lecture in Dugan 208 related to her research on Jewish conversion to Christianity in medieval ...

I fell into a state of dazed puzzlement at the start of this book, whose first chapter includes a remote century's bitter winter, "sour ale" in an "undercroft tavern," the stink of Newgate Jail, ...

A medieval London church tower has been suspended 45ft above the ground in what has been described as a “never-seen-before feat of engineering”. The tower of All Hallows Staining was balanced on ...

London in 1400 by Amédée Forestier, a French artist who specialised in historical landscapes Black women of African descent were more likely to die of the medieval plague in London, academics at the ...

A medieval church tower in London was lifted 45ft above the ground to make way for a new skyscraper. Footage taken on Tuesday (23 September) shows the more than 700-year-old Tower of All Hallows ...