Author: HistoricalHoney

It is probably everyone’s favourite dinosaur and certainly the largest meat eater to have lived, but it is surprising that despite there being enough fossil specimens to be found in the USA to uncover an almost complete dino every year, there is only been one Tyrannosaurus Rex footprint discovered. The tyrannosaur lived in North America…

Visualise London animals today and you may only think of the Tower ravens, the horses of the Household Cavalry and urban foxes, but the animals of London past were conspicuous and affected the city’s economic, social and cultural landscape. I’d like to introduce you to a selection of animals who carved out their own place…

My favourite place in the whole wide world, has to be the Isle of Wight. I love the beaches, the rolling green hills and the chocolate box villages. There’s another thing however, that the island has in abundance and that’s ghosts (Who can blame them, I wouldn’t leave either!). Over the years, I’ve run many…

When I started this book, I was not particularly impressed. While the historical setting was certainly interesting, spanning the end of the second world war up to the Cuban Missile Crisis and including something of the intrigues of Stephen Ward and Cliveden, the pacing was rather slow and the main protagonists a little vapid and…

When James Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, learnt he was the new King of Scotland, he was only six years old. His father, James I, had just been murdered at a friary in Perth, by men who supported another claimant to the Scottish crown. James’ mother, Queen Joan, had narrowly escaped with her life. The year…

How Did She Keep Henry Enraptured for Six Long Years Before Marriage? Like so many of you, I have a long-standing love affair with the mysterious, the beautiful, the oh-so-intriguing…Anne Boleyn. Why? Pondering that question, we begin to have an insight into how Henry became simply obsessed with her. Mostly all of the portraits presumed…

End-of-days rhetoric has dominated the nation’s talks on the recent lifting of sanctions on movement of Romanians and Bulgarians across the EU. Tabloids and their online counterparts, in the run up to New Year’s Day when the controls were lifted, preyed upon the nation’s fears of Britain being overrun by Eastern Europeans grasping hungrily for…

2014 will prove to be a cultural warzone fought between devotees to the First World War’s centenary and Norse fanatics, stirred into life by a recent television series and the Vikings: Life and Legend exhibit in the British Museum. God of Vengeance will undoubtedly stock the larders of the latter, but deserves far better than…

If you follow us on Twitter, then you will know there is a special place in our hearts for Historic Royal Palaces; the independent charity that looks after some of London’s most exceptional heritage sites, such as the Tower of London and Hampton Court Palace.  A couple of weeks ago, the HRP Press Team hosted a…

The V&A always deliver in their fashion exhibitions and they have done it again with a sumptuous panorama display of wedding dresses spanning the last two centuries. Wedding Dresses 1775-2014 features over 80 of the most romantic, glamorous and extravagant wedding outfits from the V&A’s collection, as well as new acquisitions and loans. The dresses of…