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When you think of women in the Middle Ages/early Renaissance, you probably imagine fair maidens, wives, mothers, nuns and possibly widows. Some people know…
Saints come in many shapes and sizes and yet only a select few of all the faithful have ever been canonised. What marks you…
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 history of Papal elections is full of intrigue, plotting, bribery and in some rare instances, holiness. By the mid-fifteenth century the form for…
The Battle of Crécy is well know as a resounding English victory. Some great men survived the bloody battle, but the highest ranking person…
Having read Mary Hollingsworth’s new release, ‘The Borgias: History’s most notorious dynasty’ we are inspired to share with you how this family managed to achieve such…
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For those not in the know, the great American gold rush was exactly how it sounds. News of vast amounts of gold deposits spread…
Historical Honey is delighted to host this wonderful Q&A session with Mark Stevens, author of Broadmoor Revealed. Firstly, let us introduce you to the…
If there is one book which can transport me back in time within reading just a few paragraphs, it is this one. When I…
How did unrelated places such as Portugal and the Caribbean islands end up with hundreds of recipes for salted cod sourced from Newfoundland and…
Our ‘Castle Of The Week’ feature has been so popular amongst our Twitter and Facebook followers we decided it was high time to commit…
Source: no1royalcrescent.org.uk Imagine stepping through a door that will take you back in time. Where would you go? What would you see? Well, on the…
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Here at the Hive, we are obsessed with absurd and downright weird facts of the historical variety. Recently, we regaled you with the tale…
I came to appreciate comics not as an eager child awaiting their weekly Beano, but as a student. When faced with every undergraduate’s nemesis, The Dissertation…
History is so packed with women it should be called ‘her-story’. Joke. What? Don’t look at me like that. Ok, yes; the fairer sex…
“So, you dress on the weekends?”…how many times have I heard that? It’s usually at that point in the party, road trip, after work…
Hang on…a town hung an elephant? I was procrastinating online today and stumbled across an article in the forever brilliant and dramatic MailOnline (don’t dwell on…
A a wise woman, also known as Carrie Bradshaw, once said ‘it wasn’t logic, it was love’. And that was most certainly the case…
My husband and I were warned prior to traveling from Paris to Versailles; apparently we would be sorry to spend more than a day…
From murder and conspiracy to rebellion and adulterous affairs; women throughout history have had a tendency to be a little on the ‘bad’ side!…
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…
It sounds like something from a bad romantic fiction. It’s the 1850s, and Henry the 7th Earl of Stamford, handsome, rich and powerful, heir…
On May 7th 1747, Johanna Magdalena Catharina Judith Van Dorth was baptized in the small church of a village named Warnsveld, in the east of…
Forget Twilight. Forget True Blood and the Vampire Diaries. You can even disregard Nosferatu and the Hammer classics. Hungarian noblewoman, Elizabeth Báthory was one crazy, blood-loving…