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1450 farmworkers planting seeds and harrowing a ploughed field.

Medieval wellness: how our New Year’s resolutions mirror the Middle Ages . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An effigy of Henry III

The Plantagenet royal dynasty: England’s ultimate family drama

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Three of the children of Henry VII: Prince Henry; Arthur Prince of Wales and Princess Margaret

Royal rivalries 10 of the most famous sibling relationships . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Image shows King Stephen, the last Norman King of England

How to be a medieval king 6 pieces of advice for would-be rulers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pod Nicholas Morton WL

Mongols vs Mamluks . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Christmas merriment in an old English manor in the 1500s

How to host a medieval Christmas . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Vlad the Impaler, aka Vlad II, whose bloodlust and cruelty was said to have inspired the most famous vampire of literature

The real Dracula? The bloodthirsty life of Vlad the Impaler

The real Wenceslas is that he was not actually a king, but Duke of Bohemia.

Q&A Who was Good King Wenceslas, and was he actually good?

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(Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

City of fur and feather: the animals of medieval London . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

St Andrew, in St Andrew chapel, depicted at his crucifixion displayed in the manner known as the Saltire cross

St Andrew’s Day: 11 things you might not know about Scotland’s patron saint

Both adults and children were required to attend church – candle in hand – on the festival of Candlemas. (Image by Getty Images)

Medieval church calendar A guide to the holy days

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Circulation of the blood, 1628. English physician William Harvey (1578-1657) was the first to correctly describe the mechanism whereby blood is circulated in the body. Diagram showing the existence of valves in veins. From Exercitatio anatomica de motu cordis et sanguinis in animalibus, by William Harvey. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

A medical renaissance? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A medieval illustration showing a doctor bleeding a patient

General History

A history of medicine 14 surprising facts

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Pod Alison Weir WL

Queens in the Age of Chivalry . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

King Henry V (left) in a late-16th- or early 17th-century portrait by an unknown artist; and his son Henry VI (right) in a c1500s portrait (Photos by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Why Henry VI’s reign was such a disaster