Migration into England was continuous from the Romans through to the Normans and men and women moved from different places and at different rates, a study finds. The researchers found early medieval ...

Hawks offered women both real and symbolic means to express gender, power and status within a male-dominated world.

A new statue of Dervorguilla of Galloway was installed in the Master’s Court of the University of Oxford’s Balliol College in September. She was the 13th-century cofounder of Balliol and its first ...

England was never as isolated as many history books once suggested. New research shows that people moved into and across England steadily for centuries, arriving from places as distant as the ...

While many believed that medieval societies were racially homogeneous, research in the field has indicated that they were actually much more diverse. “This work provides really compelling ...

Two unrelated young people buried in cemeteries in England in the Early Middle Ages probably had grandparents from West Africa. How and when their relatives arrived in Britain is unknown, but the ...

Natasha R. Hodgson had in the past received funding for research from the AHRC. The Teaching Medieval Women project which produced the research for the article receives internal funding for research ...