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Exploring London's Hidden Medieval Metropolis' If you were asked to picture London during the Middle Ages, you might think of The White Tower, Westminster Abbey or Guildhall - some of the capital’s ...
If you think London’s crime rate is cause for concern today, imagine what it was like in the 14th century. Back in the late Middle Ages, the city’s murder rate was 15 to 20 times what it is ...
The Violence Research Centre at Cambridge University (UK) just unveiled a new data-visualization project that maps murders in medieval London ... The Middle Ages wasn't as violent as we often ...
before it got burned in the Fire of London. "And we see that the river has been rerouted a little bit so that they can have a prison to hold some of those miscreants from the Middle Ages and keep ...
Wages in the Middle Ages What happens to a country’s economy when half its population dies within a few years? Dr Jordan Claridge is developing a new dataset in order to understand wages in medieval ...