One was hailed a dictator, the other a saviour of Rome. One wanted reform, the other wanted to save the Republic. Brutus Vs. Caesar. Good Vs. Evil. Murderer Vs. Murderer. Whose team would you have been on? It’s age old battle; one Gretchen Wieners struggled with herself. To make it easier for you we have…
When I was a child, long before I discovered re-enactment or really understood what or when the middle ages were, I wanted a princess hat. And, for those of you who were little girls, I can pretty much guarantee you have the same mental image as me! Yes, I’m talking about the pointy, conical hats…
For the next ten minutes, imagine you are a Queen of the Tudor Court, married to the tempestuous tyrant King Henry VIII. You are on a whirlwind journey that will no doubt change history. Would you have put Henry’s will first, or God’s? Would you have listened to your heart, or to your family? What…
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Our mission is to make history more accessible for all, from those who have a passing interest, to fully-fledged historical nuts and industry professionals. Historical Honey is a space where history is as engaging as possible via short articles covering topics YOU are interested in. It’s History, but without the cobwebs. If you have a…
Those brilliant Archaeologists at Leicester University (along with the determination of an eccentric enthusiastic named Philippa) revealed at a press conference on 4th February that the human remains found beneath a city centre car park are ‘beyond reasonable doubt’ those of the last Plantagenet, King Richard III. But Who Exactly Were the Plantagenet’s? For a royal…
Many a night, whilst drunkenly staggering home down the Corso in Manly, Sydney, I’d pop into the pie shop and order myself a ‘Ned Kelly’; a delightful pastry filled with meat, cheese, bacon and a cracked egg – yum. Now in those first few months of scoffing said pies, I didn’t have a clue who…
Influenced by the acrobatic performances of Charles Mazurier the Cancan is as popular today as it was in the 1830s. Please Note: I’ve given this move a whirl and after knocking a glass over i can tell you its not as easy as it looks! It is said to have begun in 1830, in the working-class…
If you live in London then it is very likely that you have already spotted posters for the British Museums Spring 2013 exhibition ‘Life and death in Pompeii and Herculaneum’. The catastrophic end of these Roman towns has always fascinated me and I for one cannot wait to get through the doors. Life and death…
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…