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Restoration workers are removing about 100,000 handbound books from their shelves and carefully placing them in crates, the ...

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Retropolis Just how bloody was medieval England? A ‘murder map’ holds some surprises. The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford ...

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Archaeologists in York uncovered a medieval hospital under a sinkhole near York Theatre Royal, shedding light on 12th-century history in northern England.