food resources, as well as the social and economic stability of medieval societies. Western Europe cooled considerably as the Little Ice Age intensified, leading to a temperature drop of about 0.5C.

If you're one-half of a resilient and self-reliant couple and would like to spend the summer on a remote island in Scotland, ...

Women in peasant families learnt to spin wool from an early age, using wooden wheels ... looked after animals and helped grow food. Peasants in medieval England were incredibly poor.

In the uncertain world of the Medieval Age, castles were a hub of shelter, work and security.They became large communities of workers, soldiers and nobility who all needed supplies of food and ...

Despite the chaos and messiness of medieval mealtimes ... But even Eiximenis reveals the gulf between his own age and modern sensibilities toward food hygiene: If a diner did need to spit during ...

Archaeologists have helped uncover one of the "largest and most important" Iron Age finds in the UK. The Melsonby Hoard was ...