Author: HistoricalHoney

“Getting the job of your dreams in a museum is really easy” said nobody ever. To work for some of the world’s most iconic and treasured establishments is a privilege, and as such, there is an army of people wanting to get their foot in the door! However, do not despair, with a lot of passion,…

For many people working in a museum, surrounded by history, is the ultimate career goal. But as awesome as it sounds, it is a notoriously highly competitive industry to ‘break’. I work in a museum, and…

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…

I have to be honest, when I first got this through the letterbox and read the synopsis on the back, my heart sank. I’ve always been confused by time travel, and it tends to make a story very disjointed so I try and avoid it! However, I trudged on; and I’m glad I did. Kate…

After stumbling across a great deal on Wowcher’s WOW Go! I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to fly to Venice. Yeah, I’d heard it smelt and I’d been warned the Gondola rides are a bit of a rip off…but when you have two feet and a bellyful of pasta, who needs to take the waterways?! No need for a…

Set in 1937, The Winter Garden gives an intriguing insight into pre Second World War Germany.  The story follows that of a young girl, Anna Hansen, who is murdered whilst at the school for Brides of the Reich Officers.  This school was for young girls who were about to marry an SS officer and must…

Recently, I have been ill. At my age, one takes full advantage! So what better to do than rest in bed and revisit one of my favorite time periods, the late 1970s through to the early 1980’s. Not through films, or corny television shows…but through romance novels, more specifically, ‘Harlequin Presents’. Obviously, I know times have…

Not since the Victorians trampled over one another to get their hands on a scrap of the Highlands have so many cared about kilts, broadswords and glens. Thanks in no small part to a Scottish invasion of Hollywood in 2012, with the country itself playing central roles in Skyfall and Brave, Scottish tourism is undergoing something of a…

I never knew my great, great uncle, but many of you have seen his death portrayed in several films and some of you might even remember his name. But the person you see is an actor, not the man himself. My great, great uncle was Edward John Smith, Captain of the White Star Line RMS…

All rural communities have idiosyncrasies when it comes to cultural practices.  Perhaps the customs surrounding a rural marriage are some of the most strange.  Rural Ireland of the 19th and 20th centuries had a wide variety of cultural practices surrounding the event of marriage.  Rural Ireland, way back when. Source: fanningfamilyhistory.com In some regions it was customary for…