Excavation involving the transformation of an English department store site into a Gloucestershire University facility ...

With their winding streets, historic buildings and charming atmosphere, these medieval towns and villages will take you back in time.

Most people in medieval society lived in villages, there were few large towns. The majority of people were peasants, who worked on the land. There were a range of jobs and trades in towns and ...

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the “girdle relics” of the ...

Far from being just a ghoulish footnote to medieval history, Aethelred’s massacre of the Danes likely reinforced Danish determination to attack England and set in motion a chain of events that ...

Analyzing DNA from hundreds of Anglo-Saxon-era bones in England and in northwest Europe, a paper in the journal Nature has concluded that as much as 76 percent of ancestry in eastern medieval ...

Dr Jordan Claridge is developing a new dataset in order to understand wages in medieval England and the massive economic and societal changes of the late Middle Ages. Such views are generally based on ...

Historians describe the conflict as being "massively underrated" yet "the biggest medieval battle in England". So, what exactly happened, who were the main players, and did it change the course of ...

The New York Times Connections game asks players to categorise 16 words into four groups of four. For example, in one ...

Where better to enjoy a medieval festival than in the grounds of a 15th century castle? Herstmonceux Castle, near Hastings in the south of England, is the setting for the annual England's Medieval ...