When Form Outlives Its World: Discover how medieval rituals, art and traditions survived as the societies that gave them meaning changed.

Merchants, Ports and Power: Discover how the Hanseatic League built a vast commercial network across medieval northern Europe without kings, borders or an empire.

Did France lose hope? Explore how the battles of Crécy and Poitiers, along with the capture of John II, threatened the French monarchy during the Hundred Years’ War.

Hexham Gaol, built for an archbishop around 1330, reveals how medieval justice worked—and what life could mean for those held behind its stone walls.

Daily Life in the Viking Great Army Camps reveals a mobile community of warriors, families, traders, craftspeople and captives.

Viking Trading Towns: Discover how Kaupang, Birka and Hedeby connected Viking Scandinavia with distant markets through ships, workshops, silver, merchants and royal power.

The Viking Slave Trade linked raids, markets and households from Dublin to the Volga, turning captives into labour, ransom and commercial wealth.

The Women of Oseberg: Power, Ritual and a Viking Ship Burial explores the lives of two elite women, their grave goods, their sacrifices, and the enduring mystery surrounding their burial.

Did Vikings sacrifice people? Written accounts and archaeology suggest they sometimes did, but the evidence reveals no universal Viking ceremony.

Religion in the Viking Age reveals a world of gods, household ritual, magic and changing belief as the hammer and cross increasingly existed side by side.