Author: Toni Mount

Our capital city has always been a thriving and colourful place, full of diverse and determined individuals developing trade and finance, exchangin...

Have you ever wondered what life was like for the ordinary housewife in the Middle Ages? Or how much power a medieval lady really had? Find out all...

Conjuring up a time when butchers and executioners knew more about anatomy than university-trained physicians, the phrase medieval medicine sounds ...

Isaac Newton and the England he knew: the people, places and events that shaped history''s greatest scientist. Across nine decades, Isaac Newton...

The medieval era is often associated with dynastic struggles, gruesome wars and the formidable influence of the Church. But what about the everyday...