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It’s pretty clear that Marie Antoinette was rather indulged, bless her soul. Her dresses were crafted by the mother of Haute Couture, Rose Bertin. Her hair was personally dressed by prolific hairdresser of the day, Leonard Autie. She even owned a pair of Converse trainers hundreds of years ahead of time (not historical fact –…

Forget the heavy burdens of 21st Century life…transport your mind back to the heavens above the ancient city of Rome. You are a Goddess devoted to your people, who in turn worship you, and build temples to honour your majesty and divinity.  But what do they worship you for? Which Roman Goddess will you be? Source: igniteurminds.blogspot.com, greek-gods.info, goddess-athena.org, fashionslittleblackdiary.blogspot.com, lilianarodrigues.wordpress.com, book530.com…

Of all the pieces I have written for this site, this is probably the hardest. This is because it’s an ever evolving and ‘unfinished’ piece of history, shrouded by obscurity and suppression; masterminded by control. I first became interested in North Korea, and thus the Korean Wars (25 June 1950 – 27 July 1953), when…

The Battle of Crécy is well know as a resounding English victory. Some great men survived the bloody battle, but the highest ranking person to ride off the battlefield at Crécy on 26th August 1346 was not Edward III of England, or even the French King Philip VI, but a man who is far less…

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…

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…