The Guardian reports that a narrow shaft containing the remains of more than 100 people was discovered near Leicester ...

The bed in which Richard III slept the night before the Battle of Bosworth exists today.

but also much more evidence about Anglo-Saxon and medieval Leicester. Previously the earliest mention of St. Martin's Church - the building that became the cathedral in the 20th Century - was a ...

Archaeologists who uncovered traces of a city's Roman and medieval past under what is now a city shopping centre are up for a national award. A team of University of Leicester experts excavated ...

The story behind Philippa Langley's quest to find the lost medieval English king ... Originally broadcast on BBC Radio Leicester. Original image by University of Leicester.