Professor Nicholas Orme

Nicholas Orme is emeritus professor of history at the University of Exeter. His books include Tudor Children (Yale University Press, 2023), Medieval Schools (YUP, 2006) and Medieval Children (YUP, 2001).

The poor man and the pilgrim receive hospitality at a monastery in this 13th century miniature (Photo by: Photo12/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

How to go on a medieval pilgrimage.

Tudor childhood: from dodging death to nursery rhymes.

Cathedrals: from bishops' seats to tourist hotspots.

Colour illustration of people gathering outside a church during the Middle Ages

The medieval church: your guide to religion and worship in the Middle Ages

'The Fountain of Youth', 1546. Artist: Lucas Cranach the Elder

Everard Digby: the man who taught Tudors to swim.