Growing up in the Middle Ages was no fairy tale. In this video, we explore what life was really like for children during medieval times – from harsh chores and limited education to disease ...

The internet has become strangely nostalgic for life in the Middle Ages. ... He now thinks that English peasants in the late Middle Ages may have worked closer to 300 days a year.

One of the "zombie myths" about the medieval world is the idea that childhood "didn't exist" in that period, or that parents didn't really care about their offspring. That, however, is nonsense.

Although billed as “a fresh look at the Middle Ages through the eyes of children”, presenter Dr Stephen Baxter had to admit the bulk of historic evidence for how medieval children lived their lives ...