The Modoc War, 1872-73
From the late 1860s there was an uneasy peace until the outbreak in 1872 of the Modoc War, one of...
04/12/2015
In the Medieval peasant house
There are as many different sorts of peasant houses as there are peasant families, and there are huge variations across...
30/11/2015
Few leading figures in the English Civil War 1642-51
In the middle of 17th century England experienced a great convulsion of political and military violence, which quickly spread to...
30/11/2015
Sir Martin Frobisher: The first gold rush
Once those pioneering sailors had brought news of strange new lands, all sorts of others saw opportunities of exploiting them...
29/11/2015
Hastings: The Battle that Changed the Western Europe
The year 1066 is the most celebrated in English history. To every English schoolchild it evokes a Saxon hero, Harold,...
14/10/2015
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
Who was Ada Blackjack?
On 16th September 1921, four young men, Americans Lorne Knight, Milton Galle, and Fred Maurer; and Allan Crawford, a Canadian, were...
01/08/2015
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