In medieval society, most people lived in villages ... Villeins worked on strips of land, spread out in different fields across the village. Life could be hard; if crops failed to produce enough ...

Travelling to England? These articles should interest you: In the heart of rural Wiltshire, lies the remarkably preserved medieval village of Lacock. Largely owned by the National Trust ...

Land, village life and petty crime: the workings of the medieval legal system Manor court records are a good mirror into the realities of life in rural England, believes Dr Spike Gibbs. He has been ...

Set in 1350, this medieval drama unfolds through a number of village characters telling their stories of life in the middle ages. We meet the baker, the herbalist, the landless labourer, the medicus ...