Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in ...

Public executions were a grim but powerful part of life in medieval London. In this video, we uncover how and why they were carried out, where they took place, and what they meant for the people who ...

First launched in 2018, Cambridge’s Medieval Murder Maps plots crime scenes based on translated investigations from 700-year-old coroners’ reports. These documents were recorded in Latinand are ...

I fell into a state of dazed puzzlement at the start of this book, whose first chapter includes a remote century's bitter winter, "sour ale" in an "undercroft tavern," the stink of Newgate Jail, ...

On Monday, Oct. 28, from 5 to 6 p.m., Prof. Lauren Fogle of the History Department will be giving a lecture in Dugan 208 related to her research on Jewish conversion to Christianity in medieval ...

A medieval London church tower has been suspended 45ft above the ground in what has been described as a “never-seen-before feat of engineering”. The tower of All Hallows Staining was balanced on ...

Archaeologists in Pembrokeshire, Wales, have uncovered the remains of 17 skeletons in the cemetery of what they believe are the remains of the Friary of St. Saviour's, archaeologists said. "The friary ...

A medieval church tower in London was lifted 45ft above the ground to make way for a new skyscraper. Footage taken on Tuesday (23 September) shows the more than 700-year-old Tower of All Hallows ...

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A medieval London church tower has been suspended 45ft above the ground in what has been described as a “never-seen-before ...