Winter was the most dangerous time of the medieval calendar year. So, how did medieval people cope?

The Eighth Biennial Conference of the Defoe Society Discoveries and Improvements, 1660-1740 Thursday, July 3 - Saturday, July 5, 2025 (Keele University,...

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An abandoned former tourist attraction in Aberdeenshire, which has been derelict for 13 years, has been put on the market for less than 4% of its original cost.

This three-day international conference hosted at Leiden University by the ERC Consolidator-funded FEATHERS project aims to bring together researchers working on early modern scribal culture and manus...

Owner of Sunday title as well as Guardian will discuss providing funding after staff mount opposition

Calling all unpublished women writers! The Women’s Prize Trust, Audible, the Curtis Brown literary agency and Curtis Brown Creative have partnered to run the Discoveries novel-writing development prog...

Historia: Dr Darwin: what counts as historical fiction?

I write. I edit. I ghostwrite. I also use AI — carefully — to help me with ideation and summarize research content. But I don’t substitute AI for own abilities. Unfortunately for the quality of the te...