Celebrating a birthday in the Middle Ages was very different from today. In this video, we explore how birthdays were observed - or often ignored - by different classes, the kinds of celebrations ...

When a royal vessel sank of the coast of Normandy in 1120, it not only claimed hundreds of lives but also set off a ...

Thousands of people across France flocked to vaccination centres on Sunday as the government stepped up inoculations against the coronavirus to ease the load on hospitals and stave off further ...

A new exhibition at The Met Cloisters makes the case that gender and sexual fluidity were an essential part of Medieval religious art.

This military megaproject took 10 years to build and fell in just over a month. The Maginot Line spans over 700 km, featuring towering concrete forts from the low-level plains near the English Channel ...