Rare discovery of Anglo-Norman fragments of French epic...
Tag: England
Richard III found
Skeleton of middle-aged male with scholiosis and dead in battle...
Sworn to Secrecy
Richard III’s bones may have been found in Leicester car park…
Bosworth Boar
The Bosworth Boar Badge located the spot where Richard III died...
Middleham Castle
Windsor of the North, Middleham Castle, was home to Richard III...
Valhalla
Viking burials explored at Valhalla exhibition in York...
Encomium Emmæ
Unique manuscript secured for the Royal Library in Copenhagen…
Swords Galore
Read the novel and see the rapiers, armours and battle machines...
Writing Britain
What Britain looks like, when seen through the pen of poets...
How to perform Beowulf?
When the famous Nobel Prize winner, Seamus Heayney, took upon himself to translate Beowulf, he also made the poem a fashionable part of the medieval circuit. The wider question raised in a new book is what it takes to "perform beowulf"?
Wenlok Jug Stolen
A national Medieval treasure stolen from local Museum...
Jarrow and Bede
Bid for World Heritage Status for Wearmouth-Jarrow founders on review from ICOMOS
Glass at Glastonbury
In AD 680 Glastonbury Abbey ran the first glass furnace in Britain
Royal Bones
A.D. 1035. This year died King Knute at Shaftesbury…
Royal Devotion
The Book of Common Prayer celebrates its 350th birthday...
Early Music History
The Journal celebrates its 30th anniversary ...