Why is Scotland's premier whisky club moving their sold-out Burns Night celebration to a medieval crypt? Six exceptional ...

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 ...

'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 ...

Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in medieval times. Fashionable pointy-toed shoes called poulaines were alleged to ...

CMEMS presents a James Field Willard Lecture in Medieval History, "Gilds and Things: the Making of Medieval London" with Rory Naismith for Monday, March 18th, 2019 at 5:00 PM in UMC 247. Medieval ...

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.

The cesspit under the Somerset House is nearly 15 feet deep and contained almost 100 artifacts. Courtesy of MOLA Excavations at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London have revealed a nearly ...

From Geoffrey Chaucer to Thomas Becket, brutal murders - or rumours of them - rocked medieval Britain. Now, scientists have released an interactive map that shines a light on the 14th-century ...

The map, based on an analysis of of 14th century scrolls, shows Britain was up to 20 times more violent in medieval times than it is today. One man was shot with an arrow during a student street brawl ...

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 ...