Century England, a dark-skinned saint with a promiscuous past became a boundary-breaking cultural and religious icon. A new ...

Basing their designs on surviving medieval houses in York ... served as representatives of the whole Jewish community of England, and for a time, Aaron was considered the richest man in the ...

The city, renowned today for its nightlife and world-class university, was once the beating heart of Britain's economy.

A rare Medieval bishop's ring found by a retired firefighter in a Norfolk field is expected to fetch up to £18,000 at auction ...

Often referred to as the world’s most famous medieval artwork, the Bayeux Tapestry is both an intricate illustration of the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England in 1066 and a historical ...

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 ...

It's described as one of the earliest forms of soccer with one ancient rule telling players not to murder each other.

What follows is a strange journey across medieval England, in which Gawain encounters mysterious figures who sometimes help but often hinder him in his efforts. The earthy, naturalistic ...

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 ...

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 ...

The ball is thrown to the into play at the start of the annual Shrovetide medieval hugball soccer that is match played in ...