History Category
King Aethelred the Unready
After the first King of England, Aethelstan (c.894-939), there ruled four successive kings who valiantly managed to…
The Bank of England
After the Dissolution of the Monasteries their gold started to enter general circulation. This attracted goldsmiths from…
The Old and Young Pretenders
The Stuarts’ reign (1603-1714) was a tumultuous period and the so-called Old and Young Pretenders extended the…
King James VI & I, the first Stuart
The first monarch to, in effect, rule over the British Isles was King James VI & I…
The Great Fire of London
Restoration London was crammed with buildings made of flammable materials ~ timber, thatch and pitch. Streets were…
The Pilgrim Fathers
British emigration to eastern North America in the 1600s and 1700s is recorded in the numerous duplicated…
The Last Warrior Kings
The British monarch retains the ultimate power to send the country to war, but the decision is…
William Pitt the Younger
Britain’s youngest ever and second-longest-serving Prime Minister – almost 19 years – was William Pitt the Younger…
Tribes of pre-Roman Britain
Our knowledge of the tribes of pre-Roman Britain comes from archaeological finds and scholars of the Roman Empire.…
Henges
3,000-4,000 years ago, henges were all the rage across Britain (and elsewhere too). A henge is an…
Norman Britain
In 1066 the ‘Norsemen’ or ‘Vikings‘, returned to Britain in the guise of the Normans from France,…
Bell-Beaker Folk
Prior to 2,500BC, Eurasian nomadic people with domesticated horses migrated westward towards the Atlantic and mixed with…