Author: HistoricalHoney

Back in November 2015, a story broke in The Telegraph – “Could Shakespeare’s skull have been found?  Why Church ruling means we may never know” – and quickly spread through mainstream and social media. Some accounts revelled in tabloid humour: “There’s been some Bard news for people who believed Shakespeare’s skull has been discovered in…

At last! Jane Austen will make it into the hands of pretty much every person in this great nation – as the face of a ten pound note! The Bank of England revealed it’s spanking new design this afternoon, featuring not only the author but one of her famous quotes from Pride and Prejudice; ‘I declare after all there is…

This summer sees release of the film, ‘The Bling Ring’, starring everyone’s favourite witch, Emma Watson. Based on a true story, the films sees the characters robbing homes of celebrities, including Paris Hilton and Kirsten Dunst. So in true Honey form, here is a list of our most wanted items we would love to steal from…

8 In Elizabethan England, where a person’s religious faith could cost them their lives, a suspected plot to overthrow the Queen and replace her with the Catholic Mary Queen of Scots overshadows everything. John Shakespeare, our…

From trepanning to transplants, there is no question that medicine has evolved over the last few centuries.  It is a constant journey of trial and error and some discoveries, like Alexander Fleming’s wonder drug penicillin, have advanced mankind forever. However the same cannot be said for all discoveries and we are thankful that some have been lost…

There was once a young girl who lived with her mother, a Viennese maid, and her father, a coachman, in a servants’ cottage of a castle in northeastern Bohemia. She was beautiful, with raven-black hair and soft, pale skin, and this set her apart from her brothers and sisters. Although she was the apple of…

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Join our community of like-minded community of cultural and historical enthusiasts and submit a guest post to Historical Honey. Whether you have a passion for a particular period of history, have read a great book or are in the midst of some exciting research, then please get in touch and share your knowledge! There are…

Join our community of like-minded community of cultural and historical enthusiasts and submit a guest post to Historical Honey. Whether you have a passion for a particular period of history, have read a great book or are in the midst of some exciting research, then please get in touch and share your knowledge! There are…