This year marks Jane Austen’s 250th birthday. In England, there will be festivals, exhibitions and parties — pack your ...

There is no such thing as a bad friend. The societal expectations and collective imagination of what friendship should look ...

Being a midwife in the Middle Ages was no easy task – it was messy, risky, and often life-or-death. In this video, we explore ...

A powerful prophecy was made in the Laxdaela Saga, a tragic 13th-century Icelandic tale filled with gory twists and turns. It ...

Many medieval novels, TV shows and books portray midwives as women with at least some form of knowledge of the mystic arts. She is usually a spinster who lives alone on the fringes of society and is ...

A 14th-century Bible with Jewish, Islamic and Christian artistic influences that sold for 6 9 million at auction last year is ...

The 14th-century Shem Tov Bible is now being exhibited at the National Library of Israel, a year after a family bought it for ...

There are around 130 support groups nationwide who are affiliated with Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia (PCFA). All ...

Childbirth isn't for the faint-hearted at the best of times, let alone in the medieval period. What was a birthing room like at this time in history? Who would have been in there helping bring a new ...

Alice Vincent is the bestselling author of books including Rootbound and Why Women Grow. Her latest, Hark, examines how women experience sound, and how having a baby changed how she listened to the ...

The Shem Tov Bible, a stunning 14th-century manuscript created by the renowned kabbalist Rabbi Shem Tov ben Abraham Ibn Gaon, ...