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The Mystery Of The Sword At The Crossroads

C S Hughes August 16, 2015

In pagan times a river was seen as the crossroads between worlds, the life giving property of water, the power...

Respecting The Dead

Clare Cherry August 4, 2015

was in the fictional programme The Tudors that George Boleyn was first depicted as a rapist. He brutally raped his...

Scapa Flow June 21st 1919: The Last Killings Of World War I

Neil Kemp July 20, 2015

The fact that the First World War ended on November 11th, 1918, is a well known and well documented event...

The Six Wives of Henry VIII – their Marriages, their Deaths and their Births

Danielle Marchant July 7, 2015

The birth dates of many historical figures have become lost over time. We know that King Henry VIII was born...

The Legendary Ten Seconds – Richard III

Olga Hughes July 6, 2015

The Legendary Ten Seconds have just released their third album, Richard III, to coincide with the anniversary of Richard III...

Waterloo 1815: Neglected And Forgotten Victims And Henry Percy’s London Dash

Neil Kemp June 18, 2015

As night drew in over the battlefield at Waterloo on the 18th June it served to not only signal a...

Shakespeare Or Not Shakespeare, That Is The Question

C S Hughes May 21, 2015

Historian and botanist Mark Griffiths in a recent article in Country Life Magazine claimed to have discovered the only verifiable...

Anne Boleyn’s Privy Kitchen

Olga Hughes May 19, 2015

After Cardinal Wolsey gave Hampton Court Palace to Henry VIII, Henry’s first improvement was to expand the palace kitchens. They...

Mary Boleyn Book Tour: Sarah Bryson on Mary’s Boleyn’s Children

Olga Hughes April 17, 2015

Sarah Bryson’s hotly-anticipated book on Mary Boleyn is finally here! Sarah and MadeGlobal are bringing you a full week of...

Game of Thrones: The Ironborn and The Viking Warrior with Ian Stephenson

Olga Hughes April 6, 2015

If you’ll be missing the Ironborn, who have now been mainly scrapped from Game of Thrones, here’s an interview I...

Richard III – For A Horse

C S Hughes March 30, 2015

CATESBY Rescue, my Lord of Norfolk, rescue, rescue! The king enacts more wonders than a man, Daring an opposite to...

Roses for Richard III

Olga Hughes March 30, 2015

Each day of her stay in Leicester during Richard III’s reinterment week, Jasmine took a photo of the tributes at...

Toni Mount Richard III: King of Controversy Book Giveaway

C S Hughes March 27, 2015

ichard III is still an enigma. Villainous and heroic, romantic and ruthless, chivalrous and pious. Maligned by Shakespeare and history...

A Glimpse of Edward of Middleham, Prince of Wales

Olga Hughes March 26, 2015

Richard III’s reinterment date has fallen close to the anniversaries of the death of both his wife Queen Anne Neville...

The Family of Richard III with Michael Hicks

Olga Hughes March 25, 2015

Throughout his long career Emeritus Professor Michael Hicks has examined various historical figures of the fractious period of the Wars...

After Richard III: Sir Ralph Bigod and Henry Parker, Lord Morley

Olga Hughes March 24, 2015

Sir Ralph Bigod is one of those ‘minor’ historical figures we don’t hear much about. He may have been of...

The Princes in the Urn: Why it’s Time to Let Go of the Westminster Abbey Myth

Olga Hughes March 23, 2015

he discovery of King Richard III’s remains has had a strange effect on the world of historical research. Because mtDNA...

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