The new series will bring several strong women into conflict with each other – just like the Wars of the Roses.
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The anxiety that young people are messing things up goes back centuries.
Each year at Easter, Christians recreate the spectacularly violent end of Jesus’s life, raising some tough questions about the depiction of suffering on stage.
Whatever drove villagers to dig up the dead and mutilate their corpses may seem to strange to us, but it was evidently real for them.
Trump would not have had a great time navigating the political intrigue presented in the Icelandic Sagas.
In 15th and 16th century France, two female textile guilds - comprised of single women and wives working independently of their husbands - wielded great power. By the end of the 18th century, they had been dismantled.
Lettuce leaves and purgatives might ease your aching heart.
Historic heroes like King Arthur have helped audiences through the ages to cope with troubling times.
The teaching of Islam is often limited to its religious practice. How Christians, Jews and Muslims borrowed freely from each other in the realm of art, music, and literature is seldom discussed.
Ploughing his life savings into buying the land under which the lost city lies, Stuart Wilson has made a once-in-a-lifetime discovery.
‘Winter is Coming’ and ‘All Men Must Die’ are Game of Thrones’ watchwords. But do they offer clues to an ending for the show – and the books?
A thousand years of historical sources make it clear that migraine is more than just a headache.
This week’s episode of Game of Thrones saw a battle scene that some have claimed to be the greatest TV has ever seen.
The medieval period wasn’t always dark and full of terrors
Henry II wouldn’t be amused – but rehoming relics is a way of making peace with the past.
It looks as if the story of the red priestess Melisandre is only just getting started. But is she a prophet, or a witch?
What are the implications of the return of the Dothraki? Their real-life equivalent may have the answer.
It could all get rather violent.
Anglo-Saxon opposition to the Norman conquest lasted for years after the Battle of Hastings.
Our expert joins the dots between the ancient kingdoms of yore and today’s Northern Powerhouse.
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Professor in High Medieval History, Durham University
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Senior Lecturer in History, University of Aberdeen
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Teaching Fellow in Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
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Visiting Professor of Social Inequities and Injustice, Loughborough University
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Professor of Natural Philosophy in the Department of Physics, University of York
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Professor and Tutorial Fellow in English, University of Oxford
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Professor of Medieval and Early Modern History, Queen Mary University of London
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Emeritus Professor of Physics at Durham University, Durham University
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Senior Research Fellow and Associate Director of the Medieval and Early Modern Centre, University of Sydney
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor in Experimental Psychology (Perception), University of Oxford
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Associate Professor in History of Art, University of Nottingham
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Lecturer in History, University of Leicester
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Professor of English, University of Liverpool
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Senior Lecturer in Science Communication, Australian National University
