Author: HistoricalHoney

This was totally up my street.  I loved it. ‘Enemies at Home’ is the latest in what appears to be a long and successful series of novels about members of a family investigating crime in ancient Rome in the time of the emperor Domitian. Domitian  was Roman Emperor from 81 to 96, and the third and last…

“I was born a story teller. At the age of three, before I could read or write, I can remember opening my picture books at my favourite illustrations and making up new tales. Almost like Mary Poppins, I used to ‘climb’ inside the pictures and imagine myself a part of that world…aged fifteen that I…

Nottingham is a diverse and interesting place to live. Most people do not realise the rich history of the area, and most foreigners (like me) relate Nottinghamshire to the Robin Hood Tales that have been glorified by Hollywood. As an American, I see things in a different light. I like the weird and wonderful stuff most people…

You may know him as the self confessed ‘pun-loving twitter obsessive’  slash history nerd, but don’t go writing him off as another history nutter, this guy is legit.  Greg Jenner is a historian and writer with 8 years’ experience of working in the TV industry, most notably as the Historical Consultant to the Bafta-winning ‘Horrible Histories’…

The books that Jane Austen wrote two centuries ago were designed to be entertaining. She was writing about her own era and about the sort of people she knew, so obviously her readers did not need detailed explanations of everyday life – the merest hint was quite enough. Some things were never even mentioned, because…

When someone asks if you want to sleepover in one of England’s largest, and possibly most haunted, castle your immediate reaction should always be “yes, definitely yes”. Earlier this week I lived out that dream, and it was every bit as brilliant as I imagined. For the last few years English Heritage have been opening…

This Saturday a trip to travel one million years back in time turned into a morning musing over fifties fashion. I’m not quite sure what made me do it but I tried, in vain, to visit the Natural History Museum’s new exhibit ‘Britain: One Million Years of the Human Story’; which is stupid considering it…

I can honestly say I’ve never had so much pleasure from £6.99. For someone who has lived with a broken TV for years Netflix has been my saviour. When i get home from a long day at work, i curl up in bed, switch off, and transport myself back to yesteryear. Sometimes I’m Cathy galloping around…

Picture the scene. It is a lovely spring afternoon and you are walking down 5th Avenue; when a gentleman with a severely waxed mustache accidentally knocks you over. Even though you escaped with only a graze to your knee the gentleman is most apologetic. In the midst of dabbing your knee with his pocket square…

It’s an accepted fact these days that social media is here to stay. The web is bustling with sites that let us connect to each other in a way we couldn’t have imagined before. In 2012, a staggering 56% of the population using some form of social media. Facebook alone has 1.06 billion users, compared to Twitter’s…