Life expectancy hovered around a meager 32 years, with some reaching their 40s or 50s. Few lived into old age. Yet, even in such a brutal era, one might have expected women to outlast men.

But new research published in Science Advances shows that in Medieval England, this wasn’t the case. Researchers found that men and women lived to around the same ages, and life expectancy wasn’t ...

Life expectancy in the middle ages was shorter than today—only 25 years, in some estimations—but that was an average of the ages of death. Infant and child mortality was high, and those deaths ...

Those living in almshouses have an increased life expectancy of around 2.4 years, ... Living in medieval-style almshouses could be the secret to enjoying a ... (Three Times a Week) See Sample. ...

Life in Medieval Britain may not have been comfortable but its inhabitants had a dedication to debt-free living that we could learn from today, a think-tank has claimed.