There's a lot of erotic detail in it. It's a little bit ribald and tantalising – Irina Dumitrescu In her opinion "what's ...

Witnessing a crime was one thing for medieval townspeople, but reporting it was another matter entirely… ...

Found by a metal detectorist in England, the item features a sapphire surrounded by two emeralds and two stones that are ...

The most comprehensive study of medieval warhorses ever undertaken will be released in the form of a radical new book this ...

1500 the kings had introduced a more centralised system of justice and consistent punishment. In this video, historian Alice Loxton gives a summary of crime and punishment in medieval Britain.

In 2019, metal detectorist Mark Sell uncovered a stunning sapphire ring while exploring a field in King Row in Norfolk, ...

Crime and punishment in Britain overview - OCR B Crime and punishment in early modern Britain, c.1500-c.1750 - OCR B Crime and punishment in Industrial Britain, c.1750-c.1900 - OCR B Crime and ...

Norwich was once home to dozens of anchorites, or religious recluses. I spent a day in the cell of its most famous to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Today, leprosy is rare in the United States. But, each year, more than 200,000 cases occur in Africa, Asia, and South America. In the past, it was believed that only humans could catch the disease ...

Allen Lane has signed Florence Scott’s “bold and original” history of Medieval queenship, Monarchia: A New History of the ...