A worn volume bound in faded red leather has been formally recognised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and ...

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 ...

Invading armies and the powerful families of Europe were not alone in shaping the nation’s heritage, says Prof Joanna Story There has never been an isolated, insular “Little England”, with migrants ...

An innovative new archaeological study has revealed in detail for the first time how individual towns, villages and hamlets across swathes of medieval England were decimated by the Black Death. An ...

Sparkling wine, medieval towns and purple hues transform this corner of the South Downs into a Provençal reverie ...

Archaeologists have analyzed the DNA of two unrelated individuals buried in 7th-century-AD cemeteries on the south coast of England, revealing that they both had recent ancestors, likely grandparents, ...

An in-depth analysis of pottery shards has revealed the "eye-watering" impact the Black Death had across rural medieval England. Towns, villages and hamlets were ravaged by the peak of the plague ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...