When I received Dangerous Decisions through the post, my first thought was ‘oh’. The cover is not very inspiring, and the blurb on the cover didn’t do much to inspire me either. But, I had said that I would review whatever I was sent, so I finished the book I was reading and set about reading Dangerous…
Author: HistoricalHoney
The Museum of Witchcraft
When I was 10 years old, we visited a small fishing village called Boscastle, that would later become ‘famous’ for the devastating floods of 2004. At this time it was known only as a windy, quaint natural harbour on North Cornish coast, favoured by coach parties and walkers. As it was October it was raining,…
Little Known Facts – The Titanic’s Dogs
It is a little known fact that among RMS Titanic’s 2,229 passengers and crew, there also travelled a number of sea-faring dogs. On the first page of Walter Lord’s classic account of the Titanic tragedy ‘A Night to Remember’, he writes: ‘Even the passengers’ dogs were glamorous. John Jacob Astor had brought his Airedale, Kitty. Henry Sleeper…
On The Trail Of A Civil War Ancestor
With the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg fast approaching in July, I decided to undertake a Civil War reenactment of my own: by following the Civil War adventure of my Great Great Uncle Wheilden (for the sake of this article, lets just say Uncle!). The Battle of Gettysburg. Source: fineartamerica.com Hooking Up… I first…
Horses Not Courses
It’s hard to imagine that the creatures you see galloping gaily around a muddy field once stood only fourteen inches high and weighed twelve pounds. It would probably have been much been easier to mince down the tiny, dog-like Eohippas into a Findus lasagne. But lo, evolution happened and over time horses lost a few…
Anastasia: The Great Imposter
Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia (June 18 1901 – July 17, 1918) was the youngest daughter of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last sovereign of Imperial Russia. She had three older sisters’ named Olga, Tatiana and Maria and a younger brother, Alexei. On 17th July 1918, soon after her seventeenth birthday, Anastasia and her family were assassinated in…
Why I Am Loving Anne of Cleves
OK, so she may not be the most popular, nor glamorous of Henry’s wives, and after Anne Boleyn and Jane Seymour, most people’s interests tend to wax and wane a little. However, I am starting to warm to Anne of Cleves. Sure she was a little different, slightly odd even, and her style was…lets say…as…
Badass History Boys
As the saying goes, you can’t live with them and you can’t live without them! One thing’s for sure, the pages of history would be far duller if these brave, and sometimes naughty, boys hadn’t been around to make life a whole lot more interesting! Here is a rundown of our top five ‘badass geezers’……
We All Want Some Figgy Pudding: A Very Victorian Christmas
Christmas really is the most wonderful time of the year. Celebrated the world over with presents, good cheer and even better food. A day of giving and love to all mankind, with the obligatory consumption of far too much alcohol. And it wouldn’t be complete without an evening spent in front of the TV watching Eastenders and The…
Villanous Vixens
We often hear about villains in Medieval and Renaissance history, for example, King John, Edward the Black Prince and Cesare Borgia. But where are the stories about naughty women? Were there villainous women during the…