The best place to be a woman in Ancient Greece was…Sparta. Really? You mean that bloodthirsty lot who were horrendously outnumbered at Thermopylae and yet still went on to win. That was a good place for women? Well, yes, I cry! Ignore the silly film that is 300, depicting Sparta as the blood-thirstiest place to…
Heads poking through walls, dead soldiers appearing in photographs, men wandering the chapel; these are just a few of the ghostly tales that could be told to you on a Tower of London ‘Twilight Tour’. Although not strictly a ghost tour, some Yeomen love a good scare and don’t need much encouragement to share their personal spooky…
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…
It sounds like something from a bad romantic fiction. It’s the 1850s, and Henry the 7th Earl of Stamford, handsome, rich and powerful, heir to several estates scattered across the country, meets and pursues the beautiful Kitty Cocks. Kitty is not only a commoner but…wait for it…a bareback rider in a circus. Cast Keira Knightly…
As long as songs have been written and sung, they have been used to tell stories. From classical composers to modern day chart toppers, many have taken historical events as their inspiration. Take a look at this small collection of history-themed hits: 99 Red Balloons – Nena (1984) “The war machine springs to life…Where ninety…
Approaching a homestead in Wyoming in the 1880s, you’d most likely holler, ‘Hello, the House!’ if you valued your life. With many west-bound pioneers of the mid 19th century settled on land which may once have been the home of native peoples, and thus a cause of strife, and with dissension between large ranches and small…
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Certain movies can be like an old friend; they bring you comfort, give you great advice and you can even finish their sentences. It’s fair to say there are a handful of historical movies which are just classic, and universally loved by all. Well, that was what I thought until I checked out their one…
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…
Disney knows how to create a character. Their princes are handsome, heroines too lovely, and villains practically ooze evil. 1959’s Sleeping Beauty is no exception. The bitter, jealous Maleficent is everything you’d want from a villain. She is powerful, elegant and haughty with sharp nails and green skin that screams ‘BAD NEWS’! She is the…