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

A bankrupt treasury, disastrous foreign policy and a civil war: this is the story of how Henry III lost control of his own ...

"I want to bring this story into the light, because it dispels a lot of the negative stereotypes that we have heard about the ...

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

What is most significant is that the particular tradition of ‘Mothering Sunday’ – as found in the UK, Ireland and some ...

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 ...

England in 1250 was already a multicultural and multilingual society, and had been for centuries. We know this from various kinds of evidence: ...

Stained Glass Panel with Aconite Leaves, ca. 1275-1300, Cleveland, The Cleveland Museum of Art, gift of Ella Brummer in memory of her husband, Ernest Brummer, 1977.89. Public domain. Studies in ...

A rare Medieval bishop's ring found by a retired firefighter in a Norfolk field is expected to fetch up to £18,000 at auction ...

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

One 15th Century manuscript compiled by a Carmelite friar, and translated from Latin, included a suggested infertility cure ...