Medieval

Read more about medieval history

• Solving the mystery of the Princes in the Tower
  A Q+A with author Philippa Langley on one of history’s coldest cases
• Siege warfare in the Middle Ages
  Author C.B. Hanley discusses medieval siege warfare
• Breakspear: More cannons than canon
  The story of the first English Pope
• Richard II and the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381
  Mary McGrigor sheds light on one of the most famous revolts in English history
• The Battle of Tewkesbury 1471
  How a small Gloucestershire town nearly ended the Wars of the Roses
• St Davids Cathedral’s famous faces
  St Davids Cathedral is the resting place of some of Welsh history’s most famous figures
• Medieval tales from many lands
  Storyteller Dave Tonge traces the roots of medieval folklore
• Ask the author: Gemma Hollman on Royal Witches
  Historian Gemma Hollman discusses her research for Royal Witches
• The Battle of Tettenhall: Aethelflaed’s greatest victory
  117 years after the Vikings first invaded England, warrior queen Aethelflaed fought back
• Three things you might not know about Owain Glyndŵr
  Welsh hero Owain Glyndŵr instigated his rebellion against the English on 16 September 1400
• Braveheart: The immortality of William Wallace
  William Wallace was immortalised in the 1995 film Braveheart, but has it damaged Scottish history?
• Robert the Bruce: Earl, outlaw, king
  A man who has become myth - what do we really know about Robert the Bruce?
• England’s first great naval victory
  England's first great naval battle
• Joan, Lady of Wales
  300 years before Anne Boleyn was executed for allegedly committing adultery, Joan, Lady of Wales was forgiven for the same crime.
• The Clifford’s Tower massacre
  In 1190 one of the worst cases of anti-Semitic violence in British history occurred in York
• The death of Henry III
  Henry III reigned for 56 years and was the longest-serving monarch until modern times
• Eleanor of Aquitaine’s greatest gamble
  Her marriage to future King Henry II of England would bring war
• Fact vs fiction: The Battle of Lincoln explored
  800 years on, two authors discuss how they’ve written about the battle in fact and in fiction
• On the trail of Magna Carta
  Follow this route to discover its story
• The Black Death: Human history’s biggest catastrophe?
  It is estimated that the devastating disease wiped out up to half of Europe’s population
• Battle of Hastings history timeline
  From the first ruler of England to William the Conqueror
• Family loyalty and deceit within the clan of Dracula
  So, you think you’ve got family problems?
• Aethelflaed in nine places
  Locations connected to the Lady of the Mercians
• Where did the Black Prince get his name from?
  Edward, Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, died on 8th June 1376
• The Battle of Verneuil: A second Agincourt
  How the Battle of Agincourt led to more achievements in France and Europe
• The Woodvilles: Were they as bad as history states?
  Their members helped bring down an entire dynasty
• Eleanor Talbot: The Secret Queen
  Edward IV’s relationship with Eleanor shook the crown of England
• The Bayeux Tapestry in numbers
  How many soldiers, horses and dogs were depicted?
• Why is Magna Carta still celebrated?
  Back in 1215 the odds were stacked against the Great Charter’s survival
• Winchelsea at war
  Before the Blitz, Winchelsea could lay claim to being the most war-ravaged town in Britain
• Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians timeline
  A chronology of the age of Aethelflaed, Warrior Queen
• Alfred the Great: King of the Anglo-Saxons
  What made Alfred, the most famous and celebrated of all Anglo-Saxon kings, so great?
• Llywelyn the Last
  Llywelyn - The last true Welsh Prince Of Wales?