In the ninth and tenth centuries, castles were often built of wood and easily burned down by enemies. As unrest spread across ...

Professor Richard Holmes, a British military historian featured in the NOVA film "Medieval Siege," talks here about everyday life in a medieval English castle, giving a sense of how lords and ...

What a castle siege is How people prepared for a siege ... Use this drawing of a medieval trebuchet to help you. Image caption, Can you draw a trebuchet and label the different parts?

Dover Castle on the Kent coast is opening a major visitor experience in time for the school summer break. After 800 hours of work by English Heritage, a digital model of the historic castle as it ...

A HUGE medieval castle has popped up in the middle of a frozen lake in Poland, but it’s veiled in mystery. The bizarre and grand construction has been recorded from the air but no one is exactly ...

“On the rare occasions when sieges did occur the chroniclers were ... Why, then, do so many medieval castles have clockwise spiral staircases? Well, it’s likely a practical decision, Wright ...

Carlisle Castle is a medieval fortress established during the ... Carlisle became the last British castle to undergo a siege. In December 1745, government forces under the command of the Duke ...

The stone fortress was restored and renovated in 2011 by James Cavagnari of Florence architecture and design firm Prima ...

The attraction, called Dover Castle Under Siege, will also see the castle's northern defences opened to the public for the first time, while children have the chance to experience a siege-themed ...