Red Indians and how to tame them
The Elizabethans’ colonial voyages brought them into contact with a people very different level of civilisation from their own—the ‘Indians’...
The Elizabethans’ colonial voyages brought them into contact with a people very different level of civilisation from their own—the ‘Indians’...
The Mormons have been described as the most systematic, organised, disciplined and successful pioneers in American history. For over 20...
Apart from eating and drinking (and smoking), the Tudors were enthusiastic merrymakers: they liked to entertain and to be entertained....
Perhaps the most dramatic improvement in Britain’s way of life in the 20th century was the change in the place...
Thanks to decades of peace, English houses are no longer made for defence but for comfort. The newly rich may...
The production, processing, and consumption of foodstuffs were a primary preoccupation of the medieval population. In the earlier unsettled period,...
The Gypsies, or Roma, are unique: they are the only nomadic people in recorded history who have not been either...
One of the Scotland’s great social reformers was a Welshman, Robert Owen, born in 1771. He would have been saddened...
Poverty came close to being a crime in 16th and 17th century England. Once the needy sought help from the...
Pronunciation of words in Elizabethan English is a complicated matter, since linguistically it rests between the “say what you see”...