Medieval

Child-murderer, arch villain, failed monarch, ‘northern’. Have efforts to redeem Richard III succeeded or is he still one of history’s worst kings?

Westminster Abbey was the focus of the world during the recent coronation. How and why was it built?

The ceremony for coronations may have changed, but its echoes stretch back a millennium.

Nicknames can easily raise an eyebrow, but they have value to the historian beyond humour.

From alliances, to open warfare; from tense meetings on bridges, to collective mourning at family funerals: French and English royalty were united by marriage and divided by war.

As conventional wisdom has it, Europe began to see the light at the end of a dark age sometime around 1500. Four experts try to date the birth of modernity.

The parliament of Kilkenny, which passed the eponymous Statute, opened on 18 February 1366.

The distant past is not often illustrated with plentiful descriptions of everyday life. Instead, the picture has to be put together from different sources, piece by piece, like a jigsaw. But there are often still gaps, which can be filled with historically informed creativity. 

How did women experience warfare in early medieval Britain?