During restorations at the Palace of Westminster in London, excavations have revealed a trove of historic objects, the oldest ...

The centuries-old dessert evolved from medieval porridge to a festive Christmas staple, with modern cooks keeping the ...

Archaeologists discovered 6,000-year-old flint tools beneath the Palace of Westminster that predate Stonehenge, along with medieval artifacts and Roman remains.

A grave slab raised from the site of a 13th Century shipwreck has gone on display in a museum for the first time. The Mortar ...

Ludlow is a beautiful market town in Shropshire, which has everything you could want, from regular food festivals to historic ...

As the seasons turn and the nights draw in, the countryside of the British Isles seems alive with omens: an owl’s screech, or a bat above the hedgerows. For centuries, such creatures were cast as ...

They were the Jimmy Choos of their day. Known as poulaines, pointy leather shoes were the height of fashion in 14th century Britain. Medieval men and women about town, however, suffered for their ...

Christmas pudding is a relatively recent concoction of two older, at least medieval, dishes. The first was a runny porridge ...

The first study to use x-rays and CT scans to detect evidence of cancer among the skeletal remains of a pre-industrial population suggests that between 9-14% of adults in medieval Britain had the ...

Suffering for fashion is nothing new. Researchers in Britain have unearthed new evidence that stylish pointed shoes caused a "plague" of bunions in the late medieval period. Investigators from the ...

Village greens were communal spaces for grazing, gatherings and games in medieval Britain. Many remain protected by law, ...

Liam Sharp brings brutal Celtic mythology to the Spawn Universe in Spawn: The Dark Ages #1, hitting stores Wednesday, November 19th!