A Day in Shakespeare’s London
If you can’t settle to sleep as usual and find yourself up before the break of day, you may care...
13/08/2015
HISTORY
Medieval horse armour
Such investments needed to be protected, and it is unsurprising that there should be a development in horse armour that...
16/07/2015
Key moments of the American Civil War
Union and Confederate armies clashed close to the Pennsylvania town of Gettysburg in the battle we now know was a...
09/07/2015
The entertainment in Tudor England
Apart from eating and drinking (and smoking), the Tudors were enthusiastic merrymakers: they liked to entertain and to be entertained....
20/05/2015
First portrait of a criminal published in a British newspaper
On 27th June 1881, 64-years-old coin dealer Isaac Gold was brutally murdered on the 14:00 London to Brighton express train....
16/05/2015
Key develoments in the British army in 17th century
In the 1690s the English army’s matchlock musket (slow to load, clumsy to operate at the mercy of the elements)...
31/03/2015
Organised crime in Medieval England
A large sum of money – £4,000 in gold, to be precise – is due to be transferred from London...
02/03/2015
Scotland under the rule of Alexander III
The eight-year-old Alexander III had been king for only a few days when two factions began to struggle for control...
13/02/2015
One year in Henry VIII’s life: 1536
Katherine of Aragon died on 7th January, at Kimbolton House, possibly as a result of coronary thrombosis. She was buried...
30/01/2015
Matilda: A Queen in King’s World
Power was inherently and inescapably male in the Middle Ages. The images displayed on the Great Seal of England encapsulated...
14/01/2015