Most people in medieval society lived in villages, there were few large towns. The majority of people were peasants, who worked on the land. There were a range of jobs and trades in towns and ...

Herstmonceux Castle, near Hastings in the south of England, is the setting ... This is then followed by a huge medieval battle, when more than 500 people from re-enactment groups around Europe ...

but red squirrels may have spread leprosy to people in medieval England, according to a new study. Researchers have ...

In medieval England, women in labor wrapped birth girdles around their abdomens to protect themselves and their unborn children. These parchment or paper rolls replicated the “girdle relics” of the ...