Game of Thrones Season 3 is two weeks away! There are some great things in store this season! Season 3 is a little different from the last two. Where the last two season covered full books, this season only covers half of A Storm of Swords! After watching the trailer below it looks like season…
Museum Secrets is back with a new season! This season they will visit the State Historical Museum, Moscow; Palacio Real, Madrid; Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC and others. Museum Secrets Season 3 premieres on Thursday, 14 March at 2100PM on HISTORY® Canada. USA viewers can watch Museum Secrets on the Smithsonian Channel. Unfortunately it won’t be…
The University of Leicester, with Channel 4, unveiled the world’s first photograph of the human remains found at the Grey Friars church — which could be that of King Richard III. The image is released in advance of the University of Leicester’s major announcement detailing the results of its investigations into the skeleton’s identity on…
There were a lot of great podcast episodes during 2012. We finished the Pillars of the Earth podcast series, interviewed authors, documentary hosts and medieval bloggers. Some of this years topics were requested by you, the listener. So please if you have any requests send them over. Some of the popular episodes include: Mad Monarchs…
For years J.R.R. Tolkien’s award winning novels have been favorites of medievalists and fantasy enthusiasts alike. In fact The Lord of the Rings is listed as the 4th best selling book of all time, selling 150 million copies. If you throw in the 100 million copies of The Hobbit Tolkien has two of the best…
A Wiltshire church has been told it can sell an “extremely rare” £1.3m silver medieval chalice to the British Museum. The Lacock Cup, which dates back to the 1400s, was loaned to the museum from St Cyriac’s Church in Lacock in 1962. The church now wants to sell the cup to raise funds for repairs,…
A skeleton found in the same boneyard where English King Richard III may have been buried might be one of the founders of the Church of the Grey Friars, archaeologists announced Tuesday (Oct. 30). Scientists have yet to examine the female skeleton, though they are subjecting a male skeleton suspected to be Richard III’s to…
Plans for a new multimillion-pound visitor attraction celebrating the legend of Robin Hood have been announced in the UK. Nottinghamshire County Council is seeking to build a STG13 million ($A20 million) visitor attraction called Discover Robin Hood in Sherwood Forest, complete with medieval castle and fortified ramparts. If the plans are approved, the 17-hectare attraction…
Honorable men, as they were called in the golden age of chivalry, were rich enough to outfit a squadron of knights and brutal enough to lead them into battle, often culminating in the killing and plundering of civilian populations. The code of chivalry defined honor in ways that are familiar to people today — as…
The medieval document will go on public display this summer alongside the famous Lubeck letter. A 700-year-old letter believed to have been carried by William Wallace has been returned to Scotland. The medieval document has been archived in England since it was discovered in the Tower of London in the 1830s. The document is now…
The story of how the Louvre purchased a painting by medieval master Jean Malouel for €7.8 million ($10 million) begins, improbably enough, in 1985 in the small town of Vic-le-Comte in south-central France (population: 4,700). The parish priest, trying to raise money to install a heating system in the church, decided to sell various bric-a-brac…
They have been knocked about, rejigged beyond recognition and disguised as much younger models through centuries of turmoil and change. Now the medieval origins of some of Scotland’s oldest churches is being uncovered by an investigation into the nation’s rich religious heritage. It was believed that only around 50 churches across the country built between…
“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow…
A librarian works quietly in an office people can only dream of. His daily work includes examining and looking after a steadily increasing collection of thousands of books and manuscripts, housed in rooms off a narrow spiral staircase. The works in Lincoln Cathedral Library, opposite the West Front of the cathedral, date back to the…
