A recent YouGov poll found that the word that Americans most associate with the middle ages is “violent”. Medieval towns may ...

“The massacre of York’s Jews in 1190 has overshadowed the fact that from the 1210s onwards there was once more a thriving Jewish community living and working in the city in mostly harmonious ...

An unrelated pair of people buried in cemeteries in 7th-century Britain probably had grandparents from West Africa ...

York Archaeology Archaeologists have discovered 800-year-old trash discarded by medieval residents of York, England.

YORK, ENGLAND—The foundations of the medieval Church of St John the Baptist, also known as St John’s in the Marsh, have been uncovered in at the Hungate site in central York as part of a ...

Her hiring is a milestone for York, a city in northern England whose medieval Jewish community was wiped out in a pogrom in March 1190, on the Shabbat before Passover.

The homicide rate in the city was four to five times higher than that of 14th-century London or York, said researchers from the University of Cambridge, who have mapped medieval England’s known ...

Follow the sweet trail in York, England's chocolate capital Confectionery traditions in Yorkshire’s medieval city date back hundreds of years, but chocolate-making there today is more creative ...

Several medieval artefacts have been unearthed during the demolition of a major bridge in York city centre. Work is currently being carried out on the Queen Street bridge as part of a scheme to ...

A version of this article appears in print on Nov. 5, 2023, Section A, Page 4 of the New York edition with the headline: A Digital Trail of Medieval Murders For Modern Sleuths to Investigate.