In medieval times, Nidaros Cathedral was seen as a remote but important outpost of the Catholic Church – so remote they called it Ultima Thule
‘Bone biographies’ reveal life and times of medieval England’s common people: the hard-knock lives of those who lived in Cambridge
4,000-year-old plague DNA found: the oldest cases to date in Britain; the paper is published in Nature Communications
Plague trackers: Researchers cover thousands of years in a quest to understand the elusive origins of the Black Death
Origins of the Black Death identified. Despite the pandemic’s immense demographic and societal impacts, its origins have long been elusive