Castle Stories

On looking at the full suits of armour worn by medieval knights, many modern people wonder how on earth they managed to fight while wearing all that steel. Images of knights falling into the mud and b...

28 Touko 202112min

In this week’s episode, we’ve invited a guest, Rosie Bristow, to tell us all about everything flaxen. Along with wool, flax was a mainstay fabric in medieval England, and the trade in it plugged Newca...

21 Touko 202121min

In this week’s episode of Castle Stories, we look at the lives of the most downtrodden people in Medieval society - the peasants. Were they really as ignorant, dirty and filthy as they’re always depic...

14 Touko 202114min

Moving on from last week’s episode, we thought we’d take a bit of a dive into travel in the medieval period. What was it like to go on a journey in medieval England? How fast could you travel? What ...

7 Touko 202111min

How common was travel in the medieval period? Is it really true that people rarely went more than a few miles away from their place of birth? For what reasons did people travel when they could? We try...

30 Huhti 20218min

It’s a well known fact that life in the medieval era was nasty, brutal, and short. Well known it might be, but is it true? And how can you tell what the life expectancy of people hundreds of years ago...

23 Huhti 20218min

The image of the medieval period in modern media is pretty monochrome, with the main colours being the brown of mud or the grey of stone. Were the real middle ages so washed out? Find out in this epis...

16 Huhti 20216min

In the popular imagination, Castles, and in fact the whole medieval era, have a reputation for being absolutely filthy. But just how true is this mud stained, foul smelling view of the medieval period...

9 Huhti 20217min