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LONDON - A saddlemaker ambushed outside a brewhouse. A man stabbed to death after he stumbled over a heap of dung while trying to flee a fight. And a priest killed by three knife-wielding assailants, ...
While touring St. Lawrence Church, the A&M-Central Texas group met 99-year-old Ken Cooke, one of the last surviving D-Day ...
The Diocese of Canterbury’s Vacancy in See Committee has published its Statement of Needs. There is also an article with background information on the diocesan website; it is copied below.
The brutal murder was described as a "revenge killing" due to a love affair gone awry. The post Researchers finally crack 688 ...
It's easy to lose oneself down the rabbit hole of medieval murder for hours, filtering the killings by year, choice of weapon, and location. Think of it as a kind of 14th-century version of Clue: It ...
Eisner leads the Medieval Murder Maps, a digital resource that plots crime scenes based on translations of the coroners’ rolls, mainly from the 14 th century. The project has produced maps for London, ...
A new plaque remembering civilians in Canterbury who were killed in World War Two has been installed in the city's cemetery.
The interactive Medieval Murder Map visualizes 355 homicides reported by coroners in the 14th century across London, York and ...
Learn more about the Medieval Murder Maps project that helped shed light on a nearly 700-year-old cold case.
In the end, the only charge that ever stuck in the murder case was an indictment against one of the family’s former servants.
The Medieval Murder Maps project, led by criminologist Manuel Eisner, maps violent deaths recorded in 14th-century coroners’ rolls.