The interactive map created by the University of Cambridge uses coroners' reports from 1300 and 1340 A.D. to determine where, when, and how the most murders happened.

Although no contemporary map of medieval London exists, the team at HTT didn’t have to start from scratch. Their inspiration for both the Medieval and Tudor maps was a 1989 volume called The ...

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.