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In medieval Europe, castles were the ultimate homes for kings and nobles. The big stone structures weren't just fancy ...

Medieval builders worked from sunrise to sunset at deadly heights. One slip meant death, and an injury meant begging for the ...

Back in Weobley, the impact of filming has also generated fizzing excitement among locals and business owners. The Wobbly Badger Cafe, which opened just before Christmas, found itself in a starring ...

Love is, famously, a many-splendored thing. It can encompass longing, loneliness, pain, jealousy, grief — and, sometimes, joy ...

Rob Wilson is impressed by the achievement but unconvinced by the architecture of the Stephen A Schwarzman Centre for the ...

Fledgling universities funded by kings and other leaders hired professors for their chemistry departments. Organic chemistry became a recognized discipline. These developments established an entirely ...

Migration into England was continuous from the Romans through to the Normans and men and women moved from different places and at different rates, a study finds. The researchers found early medieval ...

It causes an itchy rash spread through close skin contact and is very hard to get rid of - and doctors often fail to diagnose ...

Map of regions in early medieval England and their proportional make up of Δ18Odw-MAP (Chenery) value classifications. (CREDIT: Medieval Archaeology) While male migration was more frequent overall, ...