Author: HistoricalHoney

When we think back on the great figures in history, we remember the struggles they fought; their courage, leadership and great innovative minds… so WHY did so many balls it up and meet their end in a way totally unbefitting to how they lived in life? Here are some of my favourites: Who: Attila the…

Fancy Becoming An Expert in Stone Age Archaeology in 5 Minutes? Yes? Then read on… First things first, because our Stone Age ancestors didn’t actually write anything down, the whole period is conjecture. Finding some flint axes in a cave could mean anything; the cave could have been a religious site or a home, or…

BY JEFF GUINN If you’d asked me before I’d picked up this book just what Bonnie and Clyde’s story was, I would have said ‘Weren’t they just two outlaws looking for trouble?’ Turns out I couldn’t have been more wrong. Granted they were both trouble makers, and yes they didn’t stay on the right side…

On May 7th 1747, Johanna Magdalena Catharina Judith Van Dorth was baptized in the small church of a village named Warnsveld, in the east of the Netherlands. She died in 1799 after a most remarkable life, after literally being shot in the coffin that became her final resting place. There is not much certainty about Johanna’s…

Cheryl Bolen is an American author, who has a particular passion for the English Regency Period. She lives in Texas with her husband, who is a professor. Cheryl has enjoyed great success; her books have been translated into eleven languages, she is a regular contributor to The Regency Plum and The Regency Reader, and she…

Forget Twilight. Forget True Blood and the Vampire Diaries. You can even disregard Nosferatu and the Hammer classics. Hungarian noblewoman, Elizabeth Báthory was one crazy, blood-loving gal. Allow me to set the scene…As with many a zany character in history, Lizzie was royal; her Uncle Stephen was the King of Hungary, and she herself a Countess married…

I’m a Classicist; a lover of all things Greek and Roman. And I’m also a hypocrite. I’ve spent my entire life (well, from the age of about 16 or-so) whining about the British Museum’s hoarding of the Parthenon sculptures and here I am, about to go ahead and commend them. So, putting Lord Elgin aside…

I was first introduced to the master of epic storytelling four years ago…however, it took me a whole year to actually pick up the recommended read; ‘The Pillars of The Earth’. Why did I wait so long I hear you ask? Well, to be honest, I wasn’t convinced that the building of a medieval church was something I wanted to commit…

Once a month, women have to deal with the unpleasant sensation that is akin to having their insides dug out with a rusty spoon, (that’s right men folk, this is largely an article about vaginas). For women, as inconvenient as this week is, we understand that it is a perfectly healthy, normal, bodily function (albeit…

In reading about Mary of Guise (mother of Marie, Queen of Scots), I came across a touching story concerning her father Claude, Duke of Guise. Claude was cousin to Louise of Savoy, better known as the mother of King Francis I of France’s. Family trees aside, Duke Claude and King Francis were very close friends….