Duncan Sayer would like to thank Dr Andrew Richardson who is a co-director of the east Kent excavation project. The ...

Hanging in the Middle Ages often didn’t end with death. Bodies were placed in iron cages called gibbeted and left to rot in ...

Amid the Fenland rain, the Whittlesea Bear Festival and its Morris dancers furrow worthily on By Will Lloyd It’s a wet Sunday ...

Dance is a common occurrence in medieval Europe. They used to dance on harvests, weddings, victories, and religious festivals. Dance was entertaining, a means to get close, and an area of expressing ...

Medieval punishments are usually described as relics of a brutal past. In reality, many were never eliminated — only rebranded. The methods evolved, but the underlying logic stayed intact. Modern ...