It's easy to lose oneself down the rabbit hole of medieval murder for hours, filtering the killings by year, choice of weapon, and location. Think of it as a kind of 14th-century version of Clue: It ...

The University of Cambridge project reveals sky-high homicide rates in medieval London, York and Oxford and shows that male ...

The team have put together two exceptionally detailed maps of the capital. The first, Tudor London, zooms in on the year 1520 ...

On May 16, a super-cell storm produced a killer EF 4 tornado packing maximum 170 mph winds that roared across southern ...

By Damian Flanagan A few weeks ago, I attended a rather unusual concert in Cambridge, England. All the pieces of music dated from the time of the famo ...

The Great Fire of 1666 destroyed central London. Several intrepid designers saw the rebuilding process as an opportunity to fix the old city's problems. None of these plans were ever adopted.

The book does suggest that the great fire of London in 1666, the geology of New Jersey ... key” to why patterned brick houses became popular in South Jersey, he said. Before then, most residential ...

In early September 1666, while London’s Great Fire was still burning ... back into the familiar pattern of life it had known before the fire. There were some unexpected legacies: The catastrophe ...

Although fire-fighting techniques had become more advanced and buildings more widely separated than they were in the London of 1666, the Chicago fire was a much faster spreading and more ...