York Minster is going through a renaissance – a big claim for a building that’s been on the go to close for 1400 years. With a £20m budget (including a £10.5 million grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund) window panels are being restored, access is being improved, conservation projects are under way and new exhibitions…
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Wake by Anna Hope
London 1920. The war is over and for the last two years a nation tries to piece their fractured lives back together again. Sons return as strangers if they were lucky to return at all. Soldiers roam the streets looking for gainful employment now they find themselves surplus to requirements. The country is in a…
How to ‘Get in and Get On’ With The National Trust
Sarah Merriman, a Visitor Experience Manager for the National Trust (Wimpole Estate), has been kind enough to share some tips with Historical Honey on how to approach forging a career within the National Trust, or indeed the wider heritage sector. Wimpole Estate, where Sarah works as a Visitor Experience Manager. Source: findyourvenue.com More About Sarah: Sarah…
GUYS CLIFFE, Warwick
We’ve all heard tragic historical love stories. Lovers torn apart by warring families a la Romeo and Juliet, the dramatic tale of Cleopatra and Marc Antony and the royal love story of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert and the painful sorrow she endured when he died. But not forgetting Guy of Warwick and the beautiful…
Dangerous Decisions By Margaret Kaine
When I received Dangerous Decisions through the post, my first thought was ‘oh’. The cover is not very inspiring, and the blurb on the cover didn’t do much to inspire me either. But, I had said that I would review whatever I was sent, so I finished the book I was reading and set about reading Dangerous…
The Museum of Witchcraft
When I was 10 years old, we visited a small fishing village called Boscastle, that would later become ‘famous’ for the devastating floods of 2004. At this time it was known only as a windy, quaint natural harbour on North Cornish coast, favoured by coach parties and walkers. As it was October it was raining,…
Little Known Facts – The Titanic’s Dogs
It is a little known fact that among RMS Titanic’s 2,229 passengers and crew, there also travelled a number of sea-faring dogs. On the first page of Walter Lord’s classic account of the Titanic tragedy ‘A Night to Remember’, he writes: ‘Even the passengers’ dogs were glamorous. John Jacob Astor had brought his Airedale, Kitty. Henry Sleeper…
On The Trail Of A Civil War Ancestor
With the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg fast approaching in July, I decided to undertake a Civil War reenactment of my own: by following the Civil War adventure of my Great Great Uncle Wheilden (for the sake of this article, lets just say Uncle!). The Battle of Gettysburg. Source: fineartamerica.com Hooking Up… I first…
Horses Not Courses
It’s hard to imagine that the creatures you see galloping gaily around a muddy field once stood only fourteen inches high and weighed twelve pounds. It would probably have been much been easier to mince down the tiny, dog-like Eohippas into a Findus lasagne. But lo, evolution happened and over time horses lost a few…
Anastasia: The Great Imposter
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…