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Medieval England is often characterised in books or film as one of extremes, where serfs toil the land while lords greedily profit from their labour. But examination of the records of manor courts has ...
It is the building where people have thought to have lived for the longest period of time ...
The Derbyshire Historic Buildings Trust is calling on English Heritage to carry out urgent repairs to Wingfield Manor near ...
Hocktide was a medieval festival that used to involve tying people up to raise money for the church; today, its modern ...
A manor that imprisoned Mary, Queen of Scots was also home to an advisor to Henry VI and a scientist who had a major influence on modern astronomy during its near 600 years of existence.
A Grade I listed medieval manor house has been awarded funding to ... and was given by Arts Council England. Funding is set to safeguard the building's fabric and support urgent repairs, a ...
They went unnoticed for centuries, stacked among the records of an English manor and then ... and then reassemble the medieval manuscript, which someone in Tudor England had taken apart and ...