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Battle of Wakefield: The Trap That Killed the Duke of York
by David Cohen
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The Pied Piper of Hamelin
Hamelin remembers the Pied Piper not as a story with a clean beginning and end, but as a wound that never quite healed.
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Review: The Formidable Women Who Shaped Medieval Europe
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Migration into Early Medieval England: New Evidence Shakes Old Narratives
This article explores new large-scale research that reshapes how historians understand migration into early medieval England.
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The First Night That Never Was
Prima nocte survives because it feels like it should be true: a cruel, cinematic shortcut for “medieval oppression.” Yet when we look where medieval…
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Mary Queen of Scots: Descended from John the Fearless
by Susan Abernethy
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Review: Little Kingdoms: An A-Z of Early Medieval Britain
How small places change how we tell early medieval history
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Editor’s Book Picks – January 2026
Five medieval reads, five different lenses—big empires, small objects, messy politics, and one manuscript that refuses to stay ‘just pretty.
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A Knight Beneath the Ice Cream Shop
A medieval knight lay undisturbed beneath central Gdańsk for more than seven centuries — not beneath a cathedral floor, but under a former ice-cream…
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