London is a hugely diverse city encompassing ... The word "ends" has been used in this sense since the Middle Ages – it just hasn’t made it into Standard English. e.g. “Food in the ends ...

A lot of Medieval cities were similar to ours today in that they had governing bodies, educational structures, bankers, ...

Far from their dour reputation, the Middle Ages were a period of massive social change, burgeoning nationalism, international conflict, terrible natural disaster, climate change, rebellion ...

The Arts in the Middle Ages, and at the Period of the Renaissance. By Paul Lacroix, Curator of the Imperial Library of the Arsenal, Paris. (London: Chapman and Hall, 1870.) ...