Visitors at Bodiam Castle in England were watching a historical battle demonstration between two male reenactors on June 29 ...

What is the British Royal Regalia? Learn more about the British Crown Jewels and how they are replaced medieval renditions ...

That’s not all they found. Highway construction resulted in discoveries from multiple eras of history, including the Roman ...

Centuries ago, the site was home to St. Leonard's Hospital, a sprawling monastic facility that provided care to sick ...

A medieval healthcare facility has been unexpectedly discovered after a sinkhole emerged in York's city centre. The sinkhole ...

When archaeologists were called to investigate a sinkhole that opened up in the city of York, they were surprised to find ...

“Remnants of what is believed to be one of the largest medieval hospitals in the north of England have been found inside the ...

Sheffield Castle once stood at the confluence of two rivers in the north England city, surviving for centuries until it was ...

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 ...

In Oxford alone, homicide rates during the late medieval period were about 60 to 75 deaths per 100,000 people, a rate about 50 times higher than what is currently seen in English cities.

But even though medieval England was a violent period, “this absolutely does NOT mean that people did not care about violence,” Skoda said. “In a legal context, ...

Reopening a 688-year-old murder case reveals a tangled web of adultery and extortion in medieval England. Mindy Weisberger, CNN. Fri, June 13, 2025 at 6:31 PM UTC. 7 min read.