Travellers have always faced health hazards when far from home. Here’s what medieval people believed would keep them healthy.

Travellers have always faced health hazards when far from home. Medieval people were no exception. Pilgrims, crusaders and ...

Bloodletting was central to medieval medical practice. It used leeches or sharp knife-like instruments to nick the vein and cause blood to drain from the body. It was performed both preventatively ...

Bloodletting was central to medieval medical practice. It used leeches or sharp knife-like instruments to nick the vein and cause blood to drain from the body. It was performed both preventatively ...

I wrote an opinion article on the “Seismic insecurity in Anambra State,” after the deadly attack on the Supersports Crew at ...

Queen Elizabeth I set all the trends at court - including her sugar-rotted teeth. Famous for her love of sugar and all things ...

Imagine you are at sea facing a violent battle with an enemy ship. The experienced 17th-century surgeon John Moyle asked his ...

Israel’s leaders claimed the right to self-defence against Hamas, but as Omer Bartov, a major historian of the Holocaust, ...