Here are some of the Old English names for places around Essex. Fingringhoe near Colchester means the "hill-spur of the ...

Survival, you and up to three chums roam a squelching hinterland between two warring kingdoms. The conflict has bred a noxious brainrot that has reduced the resident villagers to sporing undead. There ...

Games, gowns, Latin and the birch (or their modern equivalents: PE, blazers, applied maths and permanent exclusion) all seem to be of an era long past the Elizabethan age with which Nicholas Orme ends ...

Few elite attitudes have been so consistently held over time, nor is this any surprise. In the satirical medieval peasant utopias of Cockaigne and Luilekkerland, where “toil and trouble are ever ...

The late political scientist enjoined readers to look for opposition to authoritarian states not in revolutionary vanguards ...

This is according to Laura Greenman, partner at HCR Law, who is urging farming businesses to have their say on the plans as the industry is "once again under threat". The Land Use Framework, which was ...

We discuss the social pyramid, non-feudal classes like peasants, craftsmen and merchants, as well as the samurai Donald Trump Gives DOGE Update as Elon Musk Says He'll Step Down in May Ranking All ...

So, what about the peasants who lived out in the countryside? What did they eat? Or the poorer people in the towns and cities? And what about the rich nobles and royal courtiers? Let’s travel ...

Subscribers receive the monthly magazine and access to all articles on our website. In 1524, hundreds of thousands of peasants across Germany took up arms against their social superiors. Peter ...

the group takes a deliberately broad definition of economic and social history in order to reflect upon the state of the field. As such, we cover a wide range of periods and places, from medieval ...