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England's 'City Of Stories' Is A Medieval Charmer With UNESCO Status, Unique Shops, And Historic Delights

England draws millions of tourists every year thanks to its capital London, a multicultural city that steals the show from other British towns. If you take the time to browse a map, the United Kingdom ...
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Facts About Medieval Times That Defy Expectations

The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to show us dirty peasants wallowing in mud, superstitious fools who thought the ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Archaeologists Find Both a Medieval Dungeon and Roman Burial Beneath a Market Square in England

Beneath a city square in the English city of Leicester, archaeologists have discovered a Roman infant burial, remnants of medieval commerce and a 16th-century civic building’s foundations. Experts ...
The Harvard Crimson

At Harvard Panel, Scholars Say Ancient DNA May ‘Challenge Assumptions’ of Ethnic Homogeneity in Medieval England

At the panel, which was co-hosted by Harvard’s Committee on Medieval Studies and the Initiative for the Science of the Human Past, a group of Harvard faculty agreed with the researchers that the ...
CNN

Reopening a 688-year-old murder case reveals a tangled web of adultery and extortion in medieval England

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