Medieval Oxford had a murder rate 50 times higher than 21st Century English cities, new research has found. The Medieval Murder Maps, assembled by Cambridge's Institute of Criminology, is a ...

A rare early masterpiece by the Renaissance painter Fra Angelico has been acquired by the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, England ...

Elements in England in the Early Medieval World takes an innovative, interdisciplinary view of the culture, history, literature, archaeology and legacy of England between the fifth and eleventh ...

Experts found the remains of a ditch, indicating where the defences originally stood, confirming that Oxford in about 900AD was much smaller than the medieval town it went on to become.

Dr Willmott said it provided the "first ever evidence for the medieval abbey ... Dr Willmott and Dr Helen Gittos of the University of Oxford, will attract interest and funding for more detailed ...