The house, asking £6 million in Hertfordshire, is a mashup of architectural eras, with a medieval hall, Georgian facade and ...

The London Museum has examples with toe points longer than 10cm, while a monk at Evesham Abbey claimed in 1394 that he had seen people wear them "half a yard (45cm) in length".

Based on reconstructed maps of London, Oxford and York, with information recorded in the coroner’s rolls from the time, the project shows Westcheap was a medieval murder hotspot.

A mass grave with 14th-century skeletons possibly linked to the Black Death was recently discovered at the Tower of London, along with rare medieval burial artifacts.

Dating from the Early Medieval era, which ran from 400 to 1100 AD, the skeletons are from “a period which is very poorly documented in historical sources, and for which we have comparatively few ...