Summer in the Middle Ages wasn’t a season of leisure — it was a fight against heat, disease, and dirty water with almost no ...

Travel in the Middle Ages looked nothing like the world we know today, yet it shaped everything from warfare to trade to the rise of global empires. Whether by foot, horseback, wagon, or water, ...

Astronomers have studied two sources created in Cairo in the Middle Ages: the poem by Ibn Sana al-Mulk, dedicated to the famous Sultan Saladin and dated 1181-1182, as well as the chronicle of the ...

The Middle Ages often lives in our imagination as a foggy era filled with armored knights, unwashed peasants, gloomy castles, ...

Food at a wedding can sometimes be one of the best parts, but different dishes have graced these events over the centuries, ...

For the best way to see medieval Europe, travel on the continent’s newest waterway. Completing a project of Charlemagne, King ...

Fried fish is a local favourite in Japan and India, Britain’s national dish, and a taco filling in Mexico. But who invented ...

Discover the resilience and ingenuity of Black women in the face of rising unemployment. Their stories of perseverance and transformation are inspiring.

Dr Sean McGlynn is a university lecturer and author of Robin Hood: A True Legend. He writes extensively on Robin Hood and ...

It’s unavoidable. If you go to a game, the ballpark grub being served is going to be as much a part of the experience as the ...

Paul Kingsnorth argues technology is killing us - physically and spiritually.