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David Musgrove is content director of HistoryExtra.com, plus its sister print magazines BBC History Magazine, BBC World Histories and BBC History Revealed. He has a PhD in medieval landscape archaeology and has worked in history publishing for almost twenty years. He is author of 100 Places that made Britain (BBC Books, 2011)

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Queen Emma and her sons, miniature in 'Encomium Emmae reginae', mid 11th century, British Library (Photo by Getty Images)
Norman

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #10: are women at the heart of the action in the Norman Conquest?

Newgrange Passage Tombs, Boyne Valley, County Meath, Ireland. (Photo by Hoberman Collection/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Medieval

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #9: Do early medieval Irish texts shed light on prehistoric incest?

The ruined monastery walls of Lindisfarne priory on Holy Island, on 27th June 2019, on Lindisfarne Island, Northumberland, England. The monastery of Lindisfarne was founded by Irish monk Saint Aidan, and the priory was founded before the end of 634 and Aidan remained there until his death in 651. The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, also known simply as Holy Island, is an island off the northeast coast of England. Holy Island has a recorded history from the 6th century AD; it was an important centre of Celtic and Anglo-saxon Christianity. After the Viking invasions and the Norman conquest of England, a priory was re-established. (Photo by Richard Baker / In Pictures via Getty Images Images)
Medieval

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #8: Did medieval people care about the time? And did they get bored?

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Tournament between the Duke of Brittany and the Duke of Bourbon. (Photo by Christophel Fine Art/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)
Medieval

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #7: what it meant to be ‘blue’ in the Middle Ages (and more killer rabbits)

The front facade of the prehistoric chambered tomb of Wayland's Smithy
Viking

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #6: Viking military mind games, Anglo-Saxon mind maps, and embroidery before the Bayeux Tapestry

This is the famous Rhynie Man carved stone, thought to be Pictish in date. (Photo by © Aberdeenshire Council Archaeology Service: www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/archaeology)
Medieval

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #4: back to Braveheart, Viking river boats, Picts, and the Crusades

Fresco by Memmo di Filippuccio, Palazzo Comunale, San Gimignano/Tuscany (Photo by Alamy)
Medieval

12 podcasts about medieval history to listen to right now

Doctor treating a patient, from a 14th-century manuscript. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)
Medieval

Elma Brenner on medieval wellbeing: “People in the Middle Ages were absolutely focused on staying healthy”

A Pictish stone carving featuring a salmon
Early medieval

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #3: the salmon of knowledge, rolling Roman mosaics, eels, and Crusades

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Sir Barry Cunliffe and a team of archaeologist roll up a Roman mosaic at Fishbourne Roman palace
Roman

Roll up, roll up: how the Roman mosaics at Fishbourne Palace were saved

Image of a medieval skull showing arrow injury
Medieval

Blog Medieval(ish) matters #2: arrows in the eye, The Last Kingdom, Viking dogs

Old Norse: Page from the manuscript Codex Regius, which was written in Iceland and contains the poems of elder Edda. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)
Medieval

Blog Medieval matters #1: The Last Kingdom, Robin Hood and how to learn Old Norse in lockdown

BBC History Magazine covers: March 2019 and April 2019.
General Modern

BBC History Magazine’s ‘ordinary’ people tweet: a response

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the Norman conquest of England in 1066. (Photo by DEA/M. SEEMULLER via Getty Images)
Norman

The Bayeux Tapestry now and in the future

A scene from the Bayeux Tapestry depicting the Norman invasion of 1066. The tapestry was most likely embroidered by women in Norman England in a workshop setting using four embroidery stitches – stem stitch; split stitch; chain stitch; and laid work, sometimes called ‘Bayeux Stitch’, says Dr Alexandra Lester-Makin. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Norman

5 Bayeux Tapestry facts: what is it, why was it made and what story does it tell?