Illustrated Medieval scene from the Romance of Lancelot

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Love, health and the weather: 9 things medieval Londoners worried about

Fit for a queen: 3 medieval recipes enjoyed at English and Scottish royal courts

Merton College, Oxford.

History explorerMedieval universities

Why Henry I could be the next ‘car park king’

Magna Carta: A turning point in English history

Magna Carta

Books interview with David Starkey: "The Magna Carta of 1215 was designed to create a revolutionary regime"

Watch: David Starkey on Magna Carta

Medieval universities and an unlikely friendship

The undignified fates of the bodies of Anglo-Saxon kings in the medieval period

Snail poultices and blood potions: 9 weird medieval medicines

Saladin and suffragettes

Officers at the Exchequer, 12th century England

Medieval immigration: “They’re heavy drinkers, barbarous and full of guile”

Magna Carta, the Roman Republic and the Enlightenment: 11 historical concepts explained in minutes

How to lead like Saladin

Richard III theme park to open near Leicester

Bad King Richard III? “He was a product of his time. I’ve warmed to him” says relative Michael Ibsen

7 places that shaped the life of Richard III

Richard III's skull. (Image by Catriona Gray)

What has the discovery of Richard III's remains taught us?

Five places Richard III may have wanted to be buried (and none of them are Leicester)

11 unmissable Richard III podcasts

(Credit: The University of Leicester)

Was the skeleton in the Leicester car park really Richard III?

Richard III reburial special

The tombs of King Henry II and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in Fontevraud Abbey, France. (Dreamstime)

The duchy of Aquitaine: an English ‘colony’ in deepest France

The medieval city of Carcassonne

My favourite place: Languedoc, France

Parts of the Magna Carta

The amazing legacy of Magna Carta

A brief history of medieval magic

Lambert Simnel

Lambert Simnel: Richard III’s heir who 'had a stronger claim to the throne than Henry VII'

The bronze effigy on the tomb of Edward Plantagenet, known as the Black Prince, in the Trinity Chapel of Canterbury Cathedral, Kent. (Photo by RDImages/Epics/Getty Images)

Q&AWhy was the Black Prince called ‘Black’?

The Peasants’ Revolt

Gothic wonder: 5 spectacular buildings of medieval England