What do you leave out when you only have 30 seconds to explain your research?  That was the challenge facing Laura and our other researchers recently in the context of our upcoming project videos.  In this post, Laura explains some of her more painful editorial decisions.

In the second of her posts on modern views of the Middle Ages, Laura considers how the work of the engaging historian is a careful balancing act between over-simplification and mind-boggling detail.   Does a simplistic view of the Middle Ages hide interesting facts, and darker truths, from a non-specialist audience? 

In the first of a new series of posts on the perception and reality of the Middle Ages, Laura announces a public engagement activity and considers why the imagery of the medieval era has been so often used to glorify war.