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

There's a lot of erotic detail in it. It's a little bit ribald and tantalising – Irina Dumitrescu In her opinion "what's important about her dark skin is that it demonstrates that the culture of ...

It is the building where people have thought to have lived for the longest period of time ...

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

Challenging word-based games are not a modern invention. In early medieval England there was a strong appetite for word ...

A 15th Century statue that was found smashed into 170 fragments behind a church wall has been painstakingly pieced together ...

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 ...

The people's health overview - OCR B Early modern Britain and the people's health, c.1500-c.1750 - OCR B Industrial Britain and the people's health, c.1750-c.1900 - OCR B Britain since c.

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 ...

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 ...