Researchers cite new evidence of how a medieval British noblewoman may have plotted to exact revenge and help kill her former ...

History is full of unexpected disasters, but few are as strange and shocking as the London beer flood of 1814. What started ...

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

That’s the challenge Lydia Wood, 31, has set herself. In the process, she is creating an archive of an important part of the city’s nightlife.

Violent crime looks quite a bit different today than it did in medieval times, when educated men were most likely to commit murder, usually in affluent areas, and often proceeded with impunity, ...