William the Conqueror was a busy guy in 1066 after successfully invading and taking control of England. After being crowned king in London at Westminster Abbey, William immediately took control of ...

Like many other historical periods, there is disagreement about when the Medieval period started. This clip is set in the 14th century, shortly after the bubonic plague devastated England.

The man buried in Dorset is also a clear genetic outlier. In a second paper, led by archaeogeneticist George Foody from the ...

A review of Ian Mortimer's "The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England," which shows the highs and lows of almost every aspect of everyday life in medieval England ...

A groundbreaking archaeological discovery has rewritten our understanding of early medieval England, revealing that two individuals buried in seventh-century cemeteries had recent West African ancesto ...

Life in Medieval Britain may not have been comfortable but its inhabitants had a dedication to debt-free living that we could learn from today, a think-tank has claimed.

Researchers have compiled "murder maps" of London, Oxford, and York to investigate the spread of medieval violence.

From carved figurines to coins, skeletons, and even entire settlements, the railway has opened up a new golden age of ...

Life in medieval towns There were not many towns in medieval England, and those that existed were small by modern standards.