Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in ...

The digs revealed richer, urban men were more likely to wear the fashionable shoes - and suffer from bunions Fashion-conscious medieval men paid the price for their love of pointy-toed shoes with ...

The Dutch are known worldwide for their wooden shoes, but the recent rare discovery of a 500-year-old one in a cesspit in the city of Alkmaar has shown just how widespread their use once was.

Perhaps one of the oddest moral panics - a fear that some evil threatens the wellbeing of society - was one that arose in medieval times. Fashionable pointy-toed shoes called poulaines were ...