Challenging the ‘Ugliness’ of Anne of Cleves
When Henry VIII’s third wife, Jane Seymour, died after giving birth to the long-wished-for prince in 1537, Thomas Cromwell immediately
The Birth of Ovid | History Today
Ovid was with a friend on Elba in the autumn of eight AD when the crisis hit. A summons arrived
Northern Ireland’s Sex Scandal that Wasn’t
In December 1952 a man named Cecil Robins – also known as Robin and described, cryptically, as a ‘fashion supervisor’
Until You Find the Sun by Maryam Hassan illustrated by Anna Wilson
I don’t know that this book is particularly unique or mind blowing, but I read a digital copy a few
William Adams: English Advisor to the Shogun
In 1600 a Dutch galleon arrived on the shores of a small fief on Kyushu, the westernmost of Japan’s four
The Capetians: Medieval France’s Greatest Dynasty
Sometime around the year 1015 a monk at the cathedral of Sens in northern France wrote a chronicle of the
The US Treasury’s Money Laundering Machine
In 1910, in the basement of the US Department of the Treasury’s Bureau of Engraving and Printing, a cacophonous and
Spycraft and the Glorious Revolution
The events which led to the deposition of James II and VII in November 1688 were not deemed ‘Glorious’ at
An Eid Story: Husna and the Eid Party by Fawzia Gilani-Williams illustrated by Kulthum Burgess
This 27 page book is old, published in 2007, and one that I kept an eye out for on occasion
‘Remembering Peasants’ by Patrick Joyce review
If like me you are a baby boomer of European extraction, then odds are that some of your grandparents were
