What do the crimes that women were charged with in a post-medieval Scotland reveal about the lives they lived?

Pregnancy in the Middle Ages was extremely dangerous. There were no sterile conditions or modern medical knowledge.

Intriguing new discoveries in a medieval cemetery in Wales have brought archaeologists closer to solving the mystery surrounding the women buried there. They've found what appears to be a small ...

Migration into England was continuous from the Romans through to the Normans and men and women moved from different places ...

The book is Emendatio vitae —The Emending of Life—written in the 14th century by Richard Rolle, a Yorkshire hermit and mystic ...

Archaeologists excavating a mysterious medieval cemetery in Wales have uncovered compelling evidence that the burial ground was part of an early female religious community. The discovery of a possible ...

Long before they wielded swords, medieval knights learned from noblewomen. This video uncovers the early training of ...

Researchers traced the roots of population movements to England during the early medieval period, from the end of Roman rule ...

England was never as isolated as many history books once suggested. New research shows that people moved into and across England steadily for centuries, arriving from places as distant as the ...

While people’s actual feet are rounded on the end, women’s dress shoes often come to a sharp point at the toe. But why?

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. These tiny beads could have been stitched onto clothing or attached to jewellery [Kevin Church/BBC News] Intriguing new ...