Claudia Gold

How the wreck of the White Ship plunged England into chaos

12 September 2020 9:00 am

Never was a monarch so undone by water as Henry I. A fruit of the sea killed him in 1135:…

Eleanor of Aquitaine is still as elusive as quicksilver

16 November 2019 9:00 am

Eleanor of Aquitaine is the most famous woman of the Middle Ages: queen of France and England, crusader, mother of…

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