In this fresh and accessible slice of medieval history, Morris (The Norman Conquest) uses the architectural history of castles in Great Britain from the time of Edward the Confessor in 1051 until the ...

The Gothic palace built for Exeter’s clerics has most recently served as a unique family home and is now selling for £3.95 ...

A flood-damaged medieval bridge is going to be restored in Worcester after plans for a £5m project were approved. The Reform ...

As the seasons turn and the nights draw in, the countryside of the British Isles seems alive with omens: an owl's screech, or ...

Beneath a city square in the English city of Leicester, archaeologists have discovered a Roman infant burial, remnants of ...

Humans were migrating to early medieval England from much further afield than scientists once thought. Genetic analysis at a cemetery in Dorset and another in Kent has now revealed the skeletons of ...

While zombies and vampires are popular in mainstream entertainment today, people living in Medieval England very much feared the undead, a new study suggests. Researchers examined a collection of ...

This isn’t your average monk story. At Malmesbury Abbey, one man of the cloth gained a dark reputation—as a violent, vengeful ...

Two people buried in early medieval England had West African ancestry, experts have revealed, in a discovery that rewrites British history. The find provides the first direct evidence of a connection ...

Long before plush leather seats and soundproof limousine cabins came along, the back of an ambling horse was considered the most comfortable ride in town. Scientists have now traced the origins of ...

On a hilltop overlooking a small Scottish village lie the buried remains of the largest settlement in medieval Britain. About 4,000 people lived within the community’s earthen ramparts during its ...