Illustrated Medieval scene from the Romance of Lancelot

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Medieval Life and Death Festival, 18–22 May 2020

Where the Bosworth battle really happened and a detailed look at rationing.

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

The LibraryBosworth: 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?.

Cromwell's words, Richard's crusades and the 1930s.

Arundel castle at dawn

Where history happened: Stephen and Matilda.

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 LibraryThe medieval huntress.

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.

The LibraryThe private lives of the British and the cruelty of Henry V.

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.

The LibraryBermuda in the British Empire and Medieval brutality.

The LibraryThomas Becket and 16th-century swimming.

Medieval petitions and 17th-century astronomers.

The burning of Templars (From: De casibus virorum illustrium by Giovanni Boccaccio). Artist: Master of the White inscriptions (active ca 1480)

The Templars on trial: a very muted inquisition.

D-Day and the Templar on trial.

The legend of King Arthur and fighter pilots.

The LibraryAn adulterous scandal and a grisly end.

Life in a London slum and the Last Judgement.

King Arthur addresses his knights in a 12th-century Arthurian manuscript now held in Rennes, France. (Photo by: Leemage/UIG via Getty Images)

Would the real King Arthur please stand up.

Gentile Bellini

My history hero: Gentile Bellini (1429-1507).

The 14th-century Gough Map

The Gough Map: a map of medieval Britain

History holidays: French fancy

ilver penny of King Alfred

The real Alfred the Great.

The 10 worst Britons in history