As she looked at the map of Oxford with some of her students during a lesson in her office, the group’s attention was drawn to one pinpoint in particular, she said.“A murder had taken place ...

Art historian and University of Kent professor Alixe Bovey retraces a series of old roads in Britain, using the Gough Map, the oldest surviving route map of Great Britain. Believed to have been drawn ...

From Geoffrey Chaucer to Thomas Becket, brutal murders - or rumours of them - rocked medieval Britain. Now, scientists have released an interactive map that shines a light on the 14th-century ...

The 650-year-old map shows two long lost islands. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A faded medieval map of Britain may ...

Grisly medieval murders detailed in new interactive maps A ‘perfect storm’ of hormones, alcohol, and deadly weapons made this English city a murder hot spot in the 14th century. By Laura Baisas ...

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 ...

The Murder Maps of Medieval England Reveal an Extraordinary, Gruesome Past. Turns out this place was a bastion of death. By Tim Newcomb Published: Sep 29, 2023 10:00 AM EDT. Save Article.

The roads built by the Romans in Britain continued to be used for both travel and trade in the Middle Ages for more than a thousand years after the fall of the Roman Empire, according to a recent ...

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.

On the second floor of the Library of Saint Mark in Venice, a map of the world occupies an entire room – and rightfully so, considering its historical significance and imposing size (2.4m x 2.4m ...

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.