This city was the murder capital of late-medieval England – and it’s not London
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Oxford was the murder capital of late-medieval England, with the city’s male university population being the main catalyst for violence, according to new research.
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Oxford was the murder capital of late-medieval England, with the city’s male university population being the main catalyst for violence, according to new research.
A project mapping medieval England's known murder cases has now added Oxford and York to its street plan of London's 14th century slayings, and found that Oxford's student population was by far the most lethally violent of all social or professional groups in any of the three cities.
Oxford was the murder capital of late-medieval England, with the city’s male university population being the main catalyst for violence, according to new research.
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