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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…

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…