Medieval England was a dangerous place. Murder rates are estimated to have been between 20 to 50 times higher than today, meaning violent deaths were a regular occurrence. But in a world without ...

The article discusses how many people fantasize about glorious past lives, possibly as famous figures, but realistically, ...

MIT professor of literature Arthur Bahr had one of the best days of his life. Sitting in the British Library, he was allowed ...

Pupils from a Derbyshire school stepped hundreds of years back in time to see how science can be put in practice when they ...

A new kind of kingdom needed a new kind of queen. The millennium-old and largely forgotten Mathilda of Flanders is being ...

Shari Horner, a professor of English at Shippensburg University, held a lecture on the medieval lives of women saints and ...

Life in 14th-century Cambridge, England, couldn’t have been easy. As the Black Death faded, it left behind a devastated ...

Archaeologists are set to begin an underwater excavation of a rare medieval crannog in Loch Achilty later this year. The ...

If you're one-half of a resilient and self-reliant couple and would like to spend the summer on a remote island in Scotland, ...

We don’t know how the the life of this bear was, but its end came in the darkness, at the bottom of a pit in a narrow Romanian cave. There were no claw marks on the stone, no signs of a struggle, just ...

Nestled in the rolling hills of Shropshire, this picturesque UK town offers a timeless experience, with centuries-old ...