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A University of Cambridge research team has mapped murders that took place around the 14th century to create interactive murder maps of three English 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.

Homicide rate may have been about 50 times higher than modern-day standards, study suggests

Oxford today is known as a place of learning and elite scholarship.

A project mapping medieval England’s murder cases has found that Oxford’s student population was the most violent.

Online project draws on 700-year-old records of coroners’ inquests in London, Oxford and York

The murder rate in Medieval Oxford was up to 100 times higher than it is now

Students at Oxford University turned the city into England’s murder hotspot in medieval times, a study has found.

Murder rate in medieval Oxford said to be 50 times higher than in 21st century English cities

Its estimated that the homicide rate in late medieval Oxford was about 60-75 per 100,000 people - 50 times higher than current rates in 21st-century English cities.