If you’ve ever wanted a no-nonsense, blood-soaked, gunpowder-stinking dive into Britain’s military history, then the York Army Museum is where you need to be. This place doesn’t waste time with modern, woke...
The Middle Ages are a fascinating period, filled with scheming, treachery, inquisitions, heretics, wars, forbidden romances, and much, much more. It’s naturally an era ripe for exploration, particularly in the world of...
The Parliamentarians who ruled England from 1653 until 1660 implemented many hitherto unforeseen changes in the island nation.
They abandoned the concept of absolute monarchy (unthinkable at the time), instituted parliamentarian rule,...
Let’s face it – Britain has a reputation when it comes to fierce women warriors. About 95% of that reputation goes (whether deservedly or not) to Boudicca – or Boadicea to her...
Linguistically speaking, the Middle Ages don’t seem like they’d be all that different from the way we speak today. After all, Shakespeare is perfectly comprehensible, right?Â
To that, we have a couple of...
The English Civil War was, as might have been pointed out once or twice in the past 400 years, kind of a drag. There was a whole bunch of fighting and looting...
The English Witch Trials were one of the darkest periods in that country’s history. Taking place over a roughly 300-year period (beginning in the 1400s and lasting until the 1700s).
The era...
It may seem almost alien to us in 2024, but for a good portion of the 20th century, the threat of nuclear war was a very real one, with many people terrified...
