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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...