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by Marco MazziWhen we speak of "Dark Ages", we refer to those centuries (5th - 9th) of which we have scarce and often unreliable historical sources. But the lac...
by Sandra Byrd "Queen Elizabeth was an intellectual," Colin Spencer tells us in his book British Food: An Extraordinary Thousand Years of History, "highly civi...
by Sandra Byrd "Queen Elizabeth was so fond of her clothes that she would never part with any of them, and it is said that at her death there were three thousan...
by Toni Mount In 1466, wealthy city grocer Sir John Crosby took a 99 year lease on a buildings adjacent to the Priory Church of St Helen in Bishopsgate, London,...
Part of a blog series about 'I am Henry,' the new novel and award-winning short film of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, by Jan Hendrik Verstaten & Massimo BarbatoDu...
As in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany and, indeed, the United States, by far the largest number of women mobilized in support of the war effort went into the civ...
Liverpool in the 1860s Unlike the rest of Britain, Liverpool’s population and economic status plummeted after World War Two. Go back 80 years further, though, a...
From the start of the war, British women were encouraged to volunteer for one of the three women's auxiliary military services: Auxiliary Territorial Service...
The smallest and most elite of the women's services in the U.K. was undoubtedly the Women's Royal Naval Service or WRNS. Because its numbers never exceeded 75,...
The youngest and arguably the most dynamic and egalitarian of the womens' services was the WAAF. While the other women's services were grafted on to institutio...
by Jack Heerema The 19th century historian’s work was not complete unless infused with a touch of misogyny. This is particularly prevalent during the period o...
The Second World War was the first in which women played a role in aviation. Russian women flew combat missions as bomber and fighter pilots, but in Great Brit...
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by David A. JacintoDecember 12th, 1866, began not unlike most winter days in the village of Hoyle Mill. Two weeks before Christmas, a foggy mist drifted throug...
by Toni Mount The fully restored Boxley Abbey Barn is clearly visible as you drive by on the M20 and, originally, this wasn’t a barn but the hospitium, not a ho...
by Jack Heerema I suffer from a heroic mindset, aggravated by the romance of historical fiction.There is no twelve-step program. There is no cure. My thought pr...
by C.F. Dunn What do recent politics, a cost of living crisis, and a pandemic have in common with a mid-fifteenth century civil war? A failed war in Europe, eco...
As an author, I’m fascinated by the English language with all its quirky words, strange spellings and vast vocabulary which gives writers such a wealth of...
by Samuel Mee The story of the cursed Hope diamond is a tale about the biggest jewellery robbery of all time - and about the disguise and resale of one of the b...
by Judith ArnoppI first came across Marguerite while I was at university where I was struck by her unjust legacy. I spent many years researching and writing abo...