The Middle Ages were a dark period in history. This period was not just about dragons, righteous knights, and princesses.

Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein paints the Creature as a sensitive and sympathetic soul, and Mike Carey's Once-Was-Willem ...

The Great Famine of 1315–1317 was one of the worst catastrophes of the late Middle Ages. Persistent rain destroyed crops, ...

John Howe, the illustrator who brought J. R. R. Tolkien’s universe to life, is now inviting the world into his mind’s eye by ...

Christmas unfolds as a sensory feast of ancient food traditions, making the season unimaginable without its warm, evocative ...

The story behind several skeletons found at a 900-year-old city landmark has been revealed by Dr Tim Pestell on history podcast Gone Medieval.

Thousands of people gathered at Stonehenge in Wiltshire over the weekend to welcome in the winter solstice, and one detail ...

Empire was Creative Assembly's most audacious strategy game, working at a scale the studio had never attempted before. A ...

The artist who brought the fantasy writer's universe to life is inviting the world into his mind's eye by setting up a studio in a Swiss mediaeval prison-turned-museum.

From the bombast of Moulin Rouge! to the teen angst of Marie Antoinette, these are the best movies that use anachronism to ...

While movies like "Star Wars" and "Alien" are what most people think of with 1970s sci-fi films, there were lesser-known ...

Taxidermied animals and carnival rides from yesteryear are in these quirky collections. Check them out to see a different ...