On rare occasions in medieval mainland Europe, ... from three of the bed burials in England revealed that the women interred there didn't grow up in Britain, the study found.

Medieval women’s lives were “more vibrant than people expect,” says lead curator Eleanor Jackson, “and [visitors] will be surprised by the sheer variety of roles” that they occupied in ...

Inside Britain's medieval plague town: Skeleton analysis sheds light on the lives of 'common people' living in Cambridge 1,000 years ago. ... However pregnant women, ...

How Medieval Women Expressed Their ‘Forbidden’ Emotions ... Countess of Norfolk, to the chancellor of England around 1273. Women did not typically partake in official communication, ...

Diane Watt has received funding from the AHRC, British Academy and Leverhulme Trust. The British Library’s breathtaking new exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words, brings to life the ...

Two women buried close by were sisters and had predominantly CNE ancestry. They were related to Updown girl – perhaps her aunts. The fact that all three were buried in a similar way, with brooches, ...

Why Were Women So Central to Social Structures in Pre-Roman Britain? Experts say the pattern flips conventional assumptions about family structures in ancient times. Durotriges tribe project dig ...

But it does suggest that women had some control of land and property, as well as strong social support, making Britain’s Celtic society “more egalitarian than the Roman world,” said study co ...