Following the collapse of the Roman City, London became a settlement racked by famine and disease, threatened by Nordic invaders, and destroyed by fire. But for those eking out a living in the dirty ...

THE remains of a roughly 1,200-year-old woman found on the shores of the River Thames have exposed the brutal punishment practices of early Medieval Britain. London between 600 to 800 AD, or Lundenwic ...

The ' London Medieval Murder Map ', which is a map that can be moved, enlarged and reduced like a Google map, has been released, which is a map of murder cases collected by criminologists at the ...

LONDON — A saddlemaker ambushed outside a brewhouse. A man stabbed to death after he stumbled over a heap of dung while trying to flee a fight. And a priest killed by three knife-wielding assailants, ...

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 ...

Do you have to dodge the contents of bedpans or step over rotting corpses on your way to work? Well, you may have had to if you'd lived in London, New York or Paris when they were filthy cities.

Exploring London's Hidden Medieval Metropolis' If you were asked to picture London during the Middle Ages, you might think of The White Tower, Westminster Abbey or Guildhall - some of the capital’s ...

A new interactive map produced by Cambridge University's Institute of Criminology plots each murder that occurred in early Medieval England to support research into the history of violence in London.

There’s rarely time to write about every cool science-y story that comes our way. So this year, we’re running a special Twelve Days of Christmas series of posts, highlighting one story that fell ...

Robert Philpot is a writer and journalist. He is the former editor of Progress magazine and the author of “Margaret Thatcher: The Honorary Jew.” LONDON — For nearly 1,000 years, the Tower of London ...