Wardship was an integral part of medieval feudalism—common wherever people had wealth to pass down, Sykes explains. It gradually became codified, evolving into “a practice shaped by law but also by ...

Work in Germany reveals enormous foundations of a medieval monastery hidden beneath Borken, surprising archaeologists.

Ice cores taken from glaciers reveal the air pollution of the past, using atmospheric particles incorporated in snow that fell on the glacier and became ice. Now, scientists have extracted a record of ...

More than a thousand years after a ship vanished off the coast of modern-day Croatia, archaeologists have uncovered a wreck that might reshape our ideas of the medieval world.

Efforts have begun to trace the original Vazhappally Shasanam, a key copper plate inscription from medieval Kerala.

It’s a bit like reading a very dense book – it’s small in size, but it’s full of information.” Paleoclimatologists like ...

A newly found underwater structure along the Norway coast may date back 1,000 years and shed light on medieval whale hunting.

Barking and Dagenham was recently named the worst borough to live in Greater London so I spent a day there and this is what I thought.

So: how long is “time immemorial”? Well, as of today, March 14, 2026, it’s exactly 836 years, 6 months, and 11 days. You know – not including the various calendar shenanigans of 1582 .

France could win five in a row at home against England for the first ever time in the Five or Six Nations. England’s last win in France came back in 2016, when Eddie Jones led them to a Grand Slam.

Behind each of these seven coins is a unique history and an astronomical price that shattered auction records.

Upminster Tithe Barn remains closed more than eight months after its restoration was completed - with its future still uncertain.