Evidence-led history, clearly told.
Research-led guides to medieval societies, states, conflicts, belief, trade, material culture, and the surviving evidence historians use.
The Lindisfarne Gospels are usually dated to the early eighth century and associated with the monastery on Lindisfarne, the tidal island off Northumberland. The manuscript is Cotton MS Nero D…
The Bayeux Tapestry tells a story of conquest through images and stitched words. Reading its narrative also means asking whose perspective it preserves and what it leaves out.
Gold weapon fittings make the Staffordshire Hoard spectacular. Their materials and find context are firmer evidence than any single story about who buried them or why.
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