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 ...

Much of this can be credited to the rise of the sub-genre known as romantasy, a deliriously popular style of story that ...

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.

An estimated 8,500 people gathered at Stonehenge in Wiltshire to celebrate the winter solstice on Sunday (December 21st) and ...

Thousands of people gathered at Stonehenge in Wiltshire over the weekend to welcome in the winter solstice, and one detail has been hailed as a 'great omen' for next year ...

One detail spotted at the winter solstice celebrations at Stonehenge has been hailed as a 'great omen' for the year ahead ...

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

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