The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male ...

University of CambridgeThe “London Medieval Murder Map” that was created by the University of Cambridge. Life definitely wasn’t easy in the Middle Ages. It was a period of history ...

It's easy to lose oneself down the rabbit hole of medieval murder for hours, filtering the killings by year, choice of weapon ...

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brutal murders - or rumours of them - rocked medieval Britain. Now, scientists have released an interactive map that shines a light on the 14th-century bloodshed across London, Oxford and York.

Fictional murderous barbers and real life serial killers are woven into London ... “A medieval university city such as Oxford had a deadly mix of conditions,” lead murder map investigator ...

A Game of Thrones style penance walk may have led to a murder on the streets of medieval London that has remained unsolved to ...

“The interactive Medieval Murder Maps give unique insight ... Each map displays the individuality of the city it documents. The London map—which shows a city home to a population between ...

Medieval Murder Maps is a digital resource that plots crime scenes based on 700-year-old coroners’ inquests and investigations. The original 2018 map of London has been remodeled and extended to ...

In the end, the only charge that ever stuck in the murder case was an indictment against one of the family’s former servants.