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A new genomic dating method has linked 75 ancient Yersinia pestis genomes to named historical plague outbreaks, several from Cambridge burial sites. One dese...
A new ancient DNA study of 26 plague genomes suggests Yersinia pestis split into three major branches between 1450 and 1500, possibly settling in wild rodent...
Most digital revision material is a paper book that has been photographed. Building two interactive study guides, one on the Crusades for Eduqas GCSE and one...
Simon A. Williams's new history of the 1645 to 1647 East Anglian witch-hunt is out now. It follows how one accusation in Essex became a hunt across five coun...
A 2026 PhD thesis from the University of East Anglia argues that serfdom in the West Midlands unravelled soon after the Black Death, as lords offered concess...
A new study in the English Historical Review argues that the 1563 Witchcraft Act was not mainly aimed at Catholic plotters. Common lawyers, it says, rejected...
Could Britain see a modern Peasants’ Revolt? It would look very different from 1381, but the same mix of economic pressure, distrust and perceived injustice ...
Archaeologists have uncoveredt the first confirmed Roman villa in North Wales. The latest excavation at the site has found a quern stone beneath the stone bu...
Radiocarbon-dated tooth enamel from 15 medieval burials places the restart of lead production in the Peak District in the mid-7th century and shows exposure ...
The Salem witch trials of 1692 are usually told as an isolated American panic. They were not. The court, the statute, and the evidence that hanged nineteen p...
The Truth Behind Welsh Myths and Legends: Fear, Folklore and Everyday Belief in Medieval Wales is now stocked by Foyles and Waterstones, alongside its existi...
Millions of UK teenagers now meet history on TikTok and Instagram before they ever open a textbook, and roughly a fifth of what they watch gets the facts wro...
Paul Greengrass's The Uprising has landed in America to a critical response that is less a verdict than a standoff: strong marks for Andrew Garfield and the ...
Paul Greengrass’s historical drama has the setting, the subject and the potential for a compelling story. But for me, it never quite brings the people or the...
Scholars have identified two previously unknown St. Augustine sermons in a 12th century manuscript in Pelplin, Poland. Nearly two years of research confirmed...
Historian and speaker Shaun Corkerry is bringing the story of the Pendle witch trials to the stage in a talk supporting Animal Care's fundraising efforts. Th...
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 ...
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, reve...
The Pendle Witches were almost certainly innocent members of the community whose vulnerability made them easy scapegoats in an anti-Northern narrative. This ...
Simon A. Williams, founder of Histories and Castles, has been published in The Union, the Grass Valley, California newspaper serving Nevada County. The guest...
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 ju...
