Behind the castles, knights and fantasy legends of medieval England stood a harsh world shaped by disease, brutal warfare, rigid class structures, religious control and constant struggle for survival.

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 ...

The Battle of Flodden in 1513 became one of the bloodiest and most devastating battles in British history as England and ...

Invading armies and the powerful families of Europe were not alone in shaping the nation’s heritage, says Prof Joanna Story There has never been an isolated, insular “Little England”, with migrants ...

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

In the 19th century, archaeologists in England unearthed remains that dated to the era after Roman rule, which ended around 400 C.E. The items revealed a shift from Roman artifacts to those ...

An in-depth analysis of pottery shards has revealed the "eye-watering" impact the Black Death had across rural medieval England. Towns, villages and hamlets were ravaged by the peak of the plague ...

An innovative new archaeological study has revealed in detail for the first time how individual towns, villages and hamlets across swathes of medieval England were decimated by the Black Death. An ...

A University of Cambridge research team has mapped murders that took place around the 14 th century to create interactive murder maps of three English cities. Using preserved coroner and inquest ...

A stained-glass window depicting Empress Matilda's voyage from England to Normandy Andreas F. Borchert via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 4.0 In three decades of teaching medieval European history, ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The historical record is a little vague but there’s every chance that, more than 500 years ago, knights with ...

Chemical analysis reveals origin of coinage that stimulated trade and helped fuel development of new towns from seventh century Several decades after the Sutton Hoo burial, starting in about AD660, ...