The medieval period often gets painted as a thousand years of darkness, filth, and ignorance. Popular culture loves to show us dirty peasants wallowing in mud, superstitious fools who thought the ...

A team of volunteers have helped to restore a medieval well and bathing pool near the small village of Blagdon in Somerset with the help of a ...

Ancient Romans cleaned their togas with stale urine collected in public pots. Medieval Europeans believed bathing was ...