From lobotomies to leeching, there have been a multitude of curious medicinal cures throughout history! I’ve listed a few here, but don’t worry, no Paracetamol is required! Got a headache? Why not bind a dead mole to your head! I appreciate it isn’t often you stumble upon a dead mole; as an alternative, place a…
Month: April 2013
Historical Honey » EXCLUSIVE: Anne O’Brien & The Forbidden Queen
Anne was born in Yorkshire, and now resides in the beautiful Welsh Marches of Herefordshire. After teaching for a number of years, Anne decided to leave the profession and chose to pursue her love of writing. Her first historical romance, A Regency, was published in 2005. Her latest work, ‘The Forbidden Queen’ centres on Katherine de…
Historical Honey » Never mind the Six Wives…what about the runners-up?
Everyone knows that Henry VIII was married six times, right? Divorced, beheaded, died – Divorced, beheaded, survived – that’s the rhyme to remember them by. But in all the fuss about Catharine, Anne, Jane, Anne, Katherine and Catherine, we’ve forgotten the ‘lucky’ ones that got away. Catharine of Aragon was, of course, married to Henry’s…
Historical Honey » Kensington Palace: Victoria Revealed Exhibition
Kensington Palace would have certainly held a special place in Queen Victoria’s heart; it was here she spent her childhood, learnt she was Queen, and first set eyes on the love of her life, Prince Albert. As a declared royalist, this exhibition was pumped full with the kind of stuff that makes my heart go…
Historical Honey » How to ‘Get in and Get On’ with the National Trust
Sarah Merriman, a Visitor Experience Manager for the National Trust (Wimpole Estate), has been kind enough to share some tips with Historical Honey on how to approach forging a career within the National Trust, or indeed the wider Heritage Sector. Wimpole Estate, National Trust More About Sarah: Sarah has recruited around 200 staff and volunteers…
Historical Honey » Fashion Faux Pas of The Past…
I think most people are guilty of a fashion blunder – as a child I loved nothing more than to parade around in my silver Puffa Jacket which made me look like a space-age Marshmallow Man from Ghostbusters. From bell-bottoms to shell-suits, and our returning obsession for dungarees, Fashion Faux Pas will always come back to haunt us, eventually…read…
Historical Honey » Don’t Go Trick-Or-Treating in Pendle…
As a kid growing up in Lancashire, my parents used to take my sister and I on little road trips over yonder ‘ill (that’s ‘over the next hill’ in plain English). We’d usually go to Blackpool or Formby, and if we were really lucky, Beatrix Potter’s favourite place, the Lake District. One place that sticks…
Historical Honey » Situating Local History Scholarship
I have realized that local history scholarship is often met with a dismissive sort of condescension by some historians. If you are self-identified as a scholar of local history you are often received within the academy as professionally akin to a ‘backyard archaeologist” i.e. someone who digs in his own garden in search of relics…
Historical Honey » What a Way to Die!
When we think back on the great figures in history, we remember the struggles they fought; their courage, leadership and great innovative minds… so WHY did so many balls it up and meet their end in a way totally unbefitting to how they lived in life? Here are some of my favourites: Who: Attila the…
Historical Honey » Become A Stone Age Expert in 5 Minutes
Fancy Becoming An Expert in Stone Age Archaeology in 5 Minutes? Yes? Then read on… First things first, because our Stone Age ancestors didn’t actually write anything down, the whole period is conjecture. Finding some flint axes in a cave could mean anything; the cave could have been a religious site or a home, or…