Shooting an arrow straight is not as easy as Katniss Everdeen makes it look. On a sunny weekend in the Waipa I soon learnt this. I became a medieval archer for a day. It started when I met ...

A historian who loves war stories, Bernard Cornwell has written some of the best, most experted researched historical fiction ...

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Deliver Me From Nowhere focuses on the making of Springsteen’s 1982 spare and deeply personal Nebraska, one of the most acclaimed albums of all time. Stephen Graham, Odessa Young, Paul Walter Hauser, ...

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Ela Fitzpayne was a powerful aristocrat who offended the Archbishop of Canterbury and was ordered to do a "walk of shame." ...

THE remains of a roughly 1,200-year-old woman found on the shores of the River Thames have exposed the brutal punishment practices of early Medieval Britain. London between 600 to 800 AD, or Lunden… ...

In medieval Spain, death was a spiritual and public event. This video explores the now-forgotten tradition of public mourning led by women—an emotional and symbolic role in 13th-century royal ...

In medieval Europe, upper-class women often relied on wet nurses to feed their children. This practice, rooted in ancient Greek and Roman medicine, reveals much about class, gender, and health in ...

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