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The story of Cambridge's medieval church on Historic England 'at risk' list The church of St Andrew the Less, also known as Abbey Church, is currently closed to the public and seems likely to ...
It's easy to lose oneself down the rabbit hole of medieval murder for hours, filtering the killings by year, choice of weapon ...
While analyzing a map depicting 355 medieval murders, University of Cambridge criminologist Manuel Eisner uncovered new evidence in Forde’s six-century-old homicide case, ... “Taken together, these ...
The texts are from the collections of the University Library, Fitzwilliam Museum and a dozen Cambridge colleges. Mr Freeman said: "For all their complexities, medieval medical recipes are very ...
The five-year After the Plague project, which began in 2016, focused on investigating burials from Cambridge’s Hospital of St. John the Evangelist, the medieval parish church of All Saints by ...
At first glance, the 16th-century register found in the Cambridge University Library might not seem the most remarkable of objects. Its brittle pages simply held handwritten records of property ...
Researchers have found pages of a rare medieval manuscript masquerading as a cover and stitched into the binding of another book, according to experts at the Cambridge University Library in ...