In the Middle Ages, England emerged as one of the most influential and powerful kingdoms in Europe – a far cry from its ...

“Our skipper said ‘Have you ever dived this mark? We said, ‘No, because it’s rubbish, there’s nothing there,’” Bournemouth ...

As a destination, medieval England would have been a pretty tough sell. The cities were filthy, and the food was rotten. Also, nobody had a sense of humor. The way historian Ian Mortimer tells it, ...

Major restoration work is under way to secure a historic harbour and quay. Historic England said essential conservation work ...

In medieval England, peasants on some estates were entitled to a range of sick, annual and bereavement leave that could rival those of many workers in the UK today.

It's long been assumed that England's Medieval rulers ate copious amounts of meat. The scientific analysis of thousands of skeletons shows the diets of the pre-Viking rulers were "flexitarian." Feasts ...

Laura holds a Master's in Experimental Neuroscience and a Bachelor's in Biology from Imperial College London. Her areas of expertise include health, medicine, psychology, and neuroscience. Laura holds ...

The popular historian Ian Mortimer is a wonderfully readable writer, who has formerly given us a series of his Time Traveller’s Guides, in which he vividly evokes the daily lives of our forebears: ...

Many mainstream economic historians do believe the average number of working days for peasant laborers in England hovered around, and even sometimes below, 150 days per year for certain stretches of ...

Oxford was the murder capital of late-medieval England, with the city’s male university population being the main catalyst for violence, according to new research. The homicide rate in the city was ...