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...
If you can’t settle to sleep as usual and find yourself up before the break of day, you may care...
On 16th September 1921, four young men, Americans Lorne Knight, Milton Galle, and Fred Maurer; and Allan Crawford, a Canadian, were...
Even in primitive societies, the threat of exile struck terror into people’s hearts and minds. A savage punishment, it snatched...
The fashion for “Egyptian” design that swept Europe after Bonaparte’s expedition was actually a revival of sorts. Europeans had drawn...
Coffee was one of the fancy new comestibles introduced to England in Stuart times. The first coffee-house was opened in...
The insulting ‘treasure’ that France’s Dauphin sent to Henry V in Shakespeare’s play had long since played its part in...
By the time Victoria became queen of Great Britain in 1837 the powers of the monarch were much more restricted...
Every 31 October in the USA, in Britain and increasingly in places as diverse as Japan, Slovenia and India, costumed...
Father’s Day is coming up, so we look into the history of Father’s Day. Sadly, retailers and marketers, in an...