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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…

BY KATE FURNIVALL If you are anything of a historical novel buff then you are probably already familiar with Furnivall’s ‘The Jewel of St Petersburg’ and ‘The Russian Concubine’. As fabulous as I think those novels are, and they will definitely get their own review at a later date, I wanted to give this novel…

This article is about…doing archaeology for free. It is a subject that a lot of people are reluctant to approach in archaeology, however, I am sticking my oar in. And I genuinely think that this is a topic that ought to be approached more often and more openly. In my blog post (link: https://ejarchaeology.wordpress.com/), my…

From lobotomies to leeching, there have been a multitude of curious medicinal cures throughout history! I’ve listed a few here, but don’t worry, no Paracetamol is required! Got a headache? Why not bind a dead mole to your head! I appreciate it isn’t often you stumble upon a dead mole; as an alternative, place a…

Anne was born in Yorkshire, and now resides in the beautiful Welsh Marches of Herefordshire. After teaching for a number of years, Anne decided to leave the profession and chose to pursue her love of writing. Her first historical romance, A Regency, was published in 2005. Her latest work, ‘The Forbidden Queen’ centres on Katherine de…