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Henry I and Matilda, in a 14th-century genealogical roll ( BL Royal MS. 14 B VI ) My latest column for History Today can be read onlin...

Harvesting sheaves in the Eadwine Psalter ( Cambridge, Trinity College, R.17.1 , f.232), illustrating Psalm 125/6 In some early medieva...

The Battle of Sherston in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( BL Cotton MS Tiberius B IV, f.67 ) This week marks the 1000th anniversary of one ...

The giving of the law to Moses, next to Pentecost in a 'typological picture-book', c.1405 ( BL King's 5, f. 27 ) This year ...

Æthelred ( CUL MS. Ee 3.59, f.3v ) Ða gelamp hit þæt se cyning æþelred forðferde ær ða scypo comon, he geendode his dagas on Sancte Geo...