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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…

Once a month, women have to deal with the unpleasant sensation that is akin to having their insides dug out with a rusty spoon, (that’s right men folk, this is largely an article about vaginas). For women, as inconvenient as this week is, we understand that it is a perfectly healthy, normal, bodily function (albeit…

Let me tell you why we are BIG fans of DigVentures. They allow novices, like us, to get up close and personal with the past, whilst giving us the opportunity to work side by side with some of the country’s leading archaeologists.  This kind of thing just doesn’t happen every day. DigVentures makes archaeology accessible to…

I think it’s fair to say we harp on about women in history a lot here at Honey HQ, but sometimes a woman comes along that you just need to give a shout out to. Today that woman is Vivien Leigh. If you know something about this fine lady, great, but let’s pretend for a…

This morning I completely lost myself in an article Jenna wrote a few weeks ago, showcasing wedding dresses from the last century.  The next few hours were spent Googling famous dresses worn by great movie stars such as Grace Kelly and Elizabeth Taylor (with six marriages, you can imagine I had a few to choose from!). I…

What’s on your ‘must pack’ list this summer? Bikini (lucky you) or brolly (ah, good old Blighty)? Before you check in, check out these tales of excess baggage from history. Packing for every possibility: 7 days away, 49 outfits! Source: flickr.com Alexander The Great Alexander The Great, marching towards what is now Western Afghanistan, was said…