Illustrated Medieval scene from the Romance of Lancelot

Medieval

Gilles de Rais, accused of murdering at least 140 children in 15th-century France

Was Gilles de Rais really history’s first recorded serial killer?

Medieval murder mystery: who killed King James III?

Medieval murders most foul

Portrait of Saladin

Saladin: a hero of Islam and scourge of the crusaders

Frederick Barbarossa: life of the week

Illustration of Eadwig being dragged by Dunstan

A threesome with his wife and mother-in-law: the scandalous story of why one Anglo-Saxon king skipped his coronation

England’s forgotten medieval hero: how John, Duke of Bedford carried on Henry V's fight

A 20th-century painting shows John applying his seal to the 1215 charter

Henry III and the Magna Carta that mattered

An illustration of the future King Edward VI of England with his whipping boy (Photo by Chronicle/Alamy Stock Photo)

“Literally whipped”: the boys who took the beatings meant for royal bottoms

A battle taking place in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Making a historically accurate videogame: how Warhorse took on the task in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

A c1300 depiction of a man paying taxes

Do you know the correct date of Magna Carta? Here’s why you might be wrong

Are we celebrating the wrong Magna Carta?

A farmer in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

10 things you need to know about medieval Bohemia before you play Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2

Kuttenberg as seen in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2.

The real history behind Kuttenberg in Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2: how Kutná Hora became the silver crown of medieval Bohemia

How monasteries powered medieval Europe

The coronation of Harold Godwinson as depicted in the Bayeux Tapestry

Is this toilet the ultimate Anglo-Saxon status symbol? Inside Harold II’s ‘ensuite’

Battle at Fontenoy, AD 841

Carolingians in crisis: the medieval civil war that shaped Europe

Twr Mawr Lighthouse and St Dwynwen's stone cross at sunrise on Llanddwyn Island on Anglesey.

Who was St Dwynwen?The legend of the Welsh patron saint of lovers

The palace of Kublai Khan’s son is illustrated in a 15th-century manuscript of the Travels of Marco Polo. Despite such vivid depictions, no reference to the Venetian merchant has ever been found in Chinese sources.

Do The Travels of Marco Polo belong in the non-fiction section, or fantasy?

The 1453 fall of Constantinople: capturing the Byzantine capital

Statue of William Tell, with a crossbow over one shoulder and a boy at his hip

William Tell: was the legendary Swiss hero a real person?

An open Bible on an altar

General ancient history

A history of the BibleWho wrote it and when?

Strange stories of medieval saints

How pigs caused a stink in medieval England

The Hanseatic League: everything you wanted to know

The outrageous heretical legend of Pope Joan, history’s only female pope

Medieval towns: everything you wanted to know

The Second Norman Conquest

The Carolingians: everything you wanted to know

1066: the battle for England