Oxford was the murder capital of late-medieval England, with the city’s male university population being the main catalyst for violence, according to new research. The homicide rate in the city was ...

Researchers have compiled "murder maps" of London, Oxford, and York to investigate the spread of medieval violence.

The Daily Express has shared its picks of 16 beautiful little English market towns everyone must visit at least once, with ...

In 13th-century England excommunication was akin to spiritual leprosy. How did it work?

A new "Medieval Murder Map" project is unveiling grisly patterns of violence in English cities in the 14th century.

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male college students were among the most frequent killers. LONDON — A ...

“The medieval university attracted young men aged between 14 and 21, many living far from home, armed and steeped in a culture of honour and group loyalty,” wrote criminologists Stephanie Brown ...

The medieval town of Sandwich in Kent is just two hours from London and is described as a 'picturesque beauty'.

A map pinpointing hundreds of homicides in 14th-century England could help teach medieval history. By Isabella Kwai A spice merchant stabbed by a fruit seller over a longstanding feud. A street ...

Medieval residents of Winchester, England, probably got their leprosy from red squirrels in the area, according to a team of archaeologists and geneticists that studied remains from two archaeological ...

(CNN) — The sun was setting on a busy London street on a May evening in 1337 when a group of men approached a priest named John Forde. They surrounded him in front of a church near Old St. Paul’s ...

Archaeologists working near Cambridge, England, have discovered the remains of a young girl who lived sometime during the 8th or 9th century. Unusually for the time, she was buried face down, a ...