This video details the destruction and the loss of 18,000 lives in Japan on March 11, 2011, after a tsunami, triggered by an ...

Most people in medieval society lived in villages, there were few large towns. The majority of people were peasants, who worked on the land. There were a range of jobs and trades in towns and ...

Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

I had recently read Frances and Joseph Gies Life in a Medieval Village and Life in a Medieval Castle, and many of the things I learned while reading them were still rattling around in my head. When ...

Land, village life and petty crime: the workings of the medieval legal system Manor court records are a good mirror into the realities of life in rural England, believes Dr Spike Gibbs. He has been ...

Travel back in time as you explore Austria's medieval villages, combining historic charm with fairytale landscapes.

UNESCO describes Hollokö, located in Nógrád in Northern Hungary, as a “living example of rural life ... and medieval castle ruins dating back to 1310. Learn more about the Old Village of ...

Set in 1350, this medieval drama unfolds through a number of village characters telling their stories of life in the middle ages. We meet the baker, the herbalist, the landless labourer, the medicus ...

People from all over the world have been trying to uncover remains of the medieval village in the Cotswolds Archaeologists digging at a Gloucestershire castle say a stone structure they have ...

A three-day dig will explore a Lincolnshire village's medieval past and its links with the Disney family. Time Team Digital will carry out an excavation later this year. The team of archaeologists ...