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The team have put together two exceptionally detailed maps of the capital. The first, Tudor London, zooms in on the year 1520 ...
A heritage body has warned that plans for a 46-storey building by The Gherkin will result in the loss of a suspected ...
The late 13th-century wall paintings were whitewashed ... painting and the portrait sculpture of Henry III on his tomb in ...
Aristos is a Newsweek science and health reporter with the London, U.K., bureau ... recovered two large grave slabs from a historic 13th-century shipwreck. The stricken medieval vessel—known ...
“Harvard had been sitting on it for all these years without realizing what it was,”said David Carpenter, a professor of medieval history at King’s College London. “My reaction was one of ...
Tucked away just off of Eltham High Street you’ll find a scenic pleasure gardens with one of south east London’s oldest pubs. Well Hall Pleasaunce dates to the 13th century, with 4.37 ...
The City of London has just approved plans to make the ... It is all that remains of the 13th-century Whitefriars Monastery, once home to the Carmelite Order of the White Friars, who used to ...
The artefact is to be sold at auction at Noonans Mayfair in London on March 26 ... be “securely dated to the late 12th or early 13th century, and is associated with the bishopric”.
See treasures Researchers from the Cambridge University Library discovered part of a 13th-century manuscript “hidden in plain sight” in the binding of another book, according to a March 25 ...