How did medieval Europe’s money system really work? While gold and silver coins were important, credit-based money systems were just as vital. This video explores how merchants in Italy and Flanders ...

The dig might have uncovered some of the earliest victims of the Black Death, and other tantalizing clues about medieval life in the citadel. The Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula at the Tower of ...

Shantanu Gupta sheds light on why the Ram Mandir in Ayodhya has remained a subject of controversy for decades. He explains the historical, political, and social factors fueling debates around the ...

Usually, when people hear the term “illuminated manuscript,” they think of enormous, leather-bound books, produced painstakingly by the hands of medieval European monks, and filled to the brim with ...

Let me take you back to the year 2000, perhaps the peak of me naively thinking things were going to be great forever. Smash Mouth's All Star was constantly on the radio. It sometimes still snowed in ...

The idea that we think of it as a as solely a brain disease. And I think for a long time it seems like there have been other paths towards how people may potentially develop this disease. There seems ...

Chair in the History of Finance and Associate Pro-Vice-Chancellor Research, Prosperity and Resilience, Henley Business School, University of Reading Adrian R Bell receives funding from UKRI via AHRC.

Figgy pudding has become one of the most recognizable dishes of the holiday season, even for people who have never tasted it. Immortalized in carols and often associated with Victorian England, the ...

LONDON, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Indian businessman Prateek Gupta, accused by commodity group Trafigura of orchestrating a $600 million metals fraud, told a court on Friday he did not know who at his firms ...

LONDON, Nov 26 (Reuters) - Trafigura lawyers said Prateek Gupta's allegations that the group concocted a secret scheme to swap expensive nickel for low-value metals were full of inconsistencies, as ...

Research for this article was conducted thanks to funding from a Leverhulme Trust research project grant, 'Modelling the Black Death and Social Connectivity in Medieval England'. Dr Grace Owen is a ...

It is a phenomenon that has swept the nation, seemingly coming out of nowhere in our country’s middle schools. The bewildering phrase "6-7" has been amusing kids and annoying parents for months now, ...