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A new book by historian and writer Simon A. Williams argues that the medieval legal system in England and Wales was not a flawed or undeveloped attempt at justice -- it was a sophisticated mechanism of control, designed from the outset to serve those who already held power. No Law for the Poor: Justice and Power in Medieval England and Wales traces more than five centuries of crime, punishment and legal authority, from Anglo-Saxon wergild and the Danelaw through to the Norman Conquest, Forest Law, and the destruction of Welsh legal tradition under Edward I. At every turn, it asks not how the law worked, but who it worked for. The book examines how women, villeins, Jews and the Welsh were systematically marginalised by a legal order that was neither crude nor accidental. Magna Carta, so often celebrated as a founding moment of English liberty, left roughly half the population entirely untouched. No Law for the Poor is Williams's third book and forms part of a wider body of work examining law, power and ordinary lives in medieval Britain. The book is available now on Amazon in paperback and Kindle editions.

Alex Garland's Elden Ring film for A24 began shooting across Wales in May 2026, closing Conwy Castle, Dolbadarn Castle, and Dinorwig Quarry for a production with a budget over $100 million and a release date of 3 March 2028. Here is everything confirmed about the film and why Wales was chosen.

In 1612, ten people were executed as witches in Lancashire. Their story has long been shaped by fear and folklore. This book uncovers a different truth, revealing how power, pressure, and flawed justice transformed suspicion into guilt in one of England’s most infamous and enduring historical trials.

The Pendle Witches were almost certainly innocent members of the community whose vulnerability made them easy scapegoats in an anti-Northern narrative. This course examines how local magistrates, such as Roger Nowell, used the hunt to prove his loyalty to the Crown by uncovering 'Satanic' conspiracies that were often merely thinly veiled Catholic recusancy.