Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

What a castle siege is How people prepared for a siege ... Use this drawing of a medieval trebuchet to help you. Image caption, Can you draw a trebuchet and label the different parts?

Castle season has officially opened in Czechia. Our guide will help you explore some of the country's most phenomenal ...

Sheffield Castle underwent a siege in 1644 as part of the civil war ... left behind by a steelworker in a cellar as well as medieval tokens and newly discovered castle walls as the site ...

It's a great week for going medieval. Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 crashed through Steam's gates on Tuesday, and now here comes survival sandbox Rust with its Primitive update. It's got swords ...

Wherever you are in England, you’re never far away from one of English Heritage’s castles. The mighty walls of these fortresses have stood proud for many centuries, from Norman earthworks to royal ...

There were endemic food crises in medieval England as a result of which many people died. If you knew a siege was coming, you stocked up even more. In 1173, for example, Salisbury Castle thought ...