Medieval

Medieval Life and Death Festival

Medieval Life and Death Festival, 18–22 May 2020

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Where the Bosworth battle really happened and a detailed look at rationing . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The battle of Bosworth site. (Photo by Darren Walker/Dreamstime)

The Library Bosworth: did gunpowder win the day?

A helmet marks a trail over fields from the Bosworth Battlefield Heritage Centre, 2013. The site is close to the spot where the battle of Bosworth took place in 1485, and the place where King Richard III was killed. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Bosworth: the race to find the battlefield

Boar badge of Richard III discovered in Bosworth Field. (Photo by Creative Commons)

Bosworth battle site: have we discovered where Richard III died?

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Cromwell’s words, Richard’s crusades and the 1930s . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Arundel castle at dawn

Where history happened: Stephen and Matilda . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Some household cures would aim to rebalance the body's humours

Household medicine: sickness, salves and skillets

Detail from the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, showing hawking. Made in Tournai in the 15th century. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The Library The medieval huntress

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The Time Traveller’s Guide to Medieval England

The Holy Face by Andrei Rublev. Tempera on wood, 14th century. Moscow, Russia. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

The mutation of Christianity

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The Library The private lives of the British and the cruelty of Henry V . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of King Henry V of England (1387-1422), dated 15th century. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Henry V: the cruel king

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The Library Bermuda in the British Empire and Medieval brutality . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Library Thomas Becket and 16th-century swimming . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.