Author: HistoricalHoney

Jenny Porrett, employee at Arundel Castle, West Sussex, gives us an exclusive insight into life behind castle walls… I don’t start work at the Castle until 9.30 which suits me perfectly as it gives me time to do a bit of genealogy or a blog post before I need to get ready. My drive to the…

Each and everyone of us needs food to survive although some of us take the appreciation of this necessity to a level far beyond mere sustenance. For all their high brow intellect and unconventional lifestyles the Bloomsbury group were as fond of food and eating as many of us are today. Their love of food…

London, as we all know, is brimming with history, and author Catharine Arnold is well known for writing about the less -than-savoury aspects of… If there is on man you can rely on to fully embrace the #secretbookclub, it’s Richard Lewis. His ability to read and provide thought-felt reviews… We are always proud to showcase industry…

There’s a moment in the film Titanic in which we are treated, if that’s the right word (which it isn’t), to an aerial shot… The Celts would not have called themselves Celts. That is an outside term from the Greek “Keltoi” or Latin “Celtae.” The Celts may have… Few historians have the courage to challenge…

The abdication of King Juan Carlos last month is the seventh time that the Spanish throne has been voluntarily vacated. While Britain’s own Edward… English history is littered with consorts of our monarchs. The vast majority were women, with the occasional man included where the monarch is female…. This summer marks the 70th anniversary of…

Everyone knows that Henry VIII was married six times, right? Divorced, beheaded, died – Divorced, beheaded, survived – that’s the rhyme to remember them… I think most people are guilty of a fashion blunder – as a child I loved nothing more than to parade around in my… I was first introduced to the master of epic…

Upon hearing that Susan Bordo has a new book out, fabulously entitled ‘The Creation of Anne Boleyn: A New Look at England’s Most Notorious Queen’, we immediately… We are very lucky here at the Hive to have the opportunity to meet, talk to and even share with our readers some fantastic people… If you don’t know who Dr Sam…

This category does not contain any posts yet When you stand in the Cellarium of Fountains Abbey, with its vaulted ceiling arching like gigantic fingers above your head and dusty shadows lingering… Men in uniform and an historic house – what could be a more perfect way to spend a Tuesday?! With that very thought…

This category does not contain any posts yet BEWARE: SPOILERS! You have to love Game Of Thrones. You know, that show that everyone has been fawning over?! OK, OK. So I know… When I was 10 years old, we visited a small fishing village called Boscastle, that would later become ‘famous’ for the devastating floods…

This category does not contain any posts yet To commemorate the centenary of WW1 we are running a series of three posts from our recent trip to the WW1 sites of Nord… 2014 is set to be a poignant year, as we commemorate the centenary of the beginning of the First World War. This year, we…