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17th April, 2024 in Women in History
This Sunday, 21st April marks the 208th anniversary of the birth of English novelist and poet Charlotte Brontë. While she lived only 38 years, her legacy – and her celebrity – have remained perennially present. Her 1847 novel Jane Eyre is one of the most enduring texts of the 19t…
3rd April, 2024 in Military
And so, in the early morning of 11 May, 973 heavy bombers took off in fine weather from airfields across East Anglia. Their mission was Operation 350: to fly 500 miles across France to attack railway marshalling yards in Mulhouse, Épinal, Belfort and Chaumont, and an airfield at…
3rd April, 2024 in Folklore
When it comes to folk tales in Scotland we find that the sea plays a very important role, and it’s hardly surprising. The coastline is over 11,600 miles long, taking in all the islands, both large and small. The sea dominated the lives of so many, and the old tales reflected the…
20th March, 2024 in Natural World
For National Flower Day Emma Timpany author of Botanical Short Stories discusses the fascination with flowers. We humans have a universal, innate love of flowers, and go to great lengths to satisfy this desire. The worldwide flower growing industry is worth billions of pounds, an…
12th March, 2024 in Biography & Memoir, Society & Culture
One day, we got a phone call from Vanity Fair saying the photographer Michael Roberts would like to shoot us on Savile Row. Michael was something of a trailblazer himself. Only a couple of years earlier, he had shot Vivienne Westwood impersonating Margaret Thatcher for the cover…
7th March, 2024 in Society & Culture, Women in History
Cambridge University is internationally renowned for its ancient colleges. It is lauded for its educational excellence. But in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, infamy blighted its hallowed name. As an alarming number of courtroom dramas exposed the university’s steadfa…
19th January, 2024 in Local & Family History, Women in History
This is the last book in the trilogy that started with my great great grandmother, Hannah Hall in the 1820’s as she re-located with her family to a new coal mine opening up in Hetton-le-Hole, County Durham. No-one at that time could have known the importance of that move. By 1822…
24th November, 2023 in Biography & Memoir, History, Special Editions
Following seven years of investigation and intelligence gathering, including archival searches around the world, Phase One of The Missing Princes Project is complete. The evidence uncovered suggests that both sons of Edward IV survived to fight for the English throne against Henr…
✨ COVER REVEAL ✨
These are the stories of the astonishing women who broke boundaries and set records by becoming the first to travel right around the world 🌍 🙇♀️
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This book is the definitive history of the Ku Klux Klan, a symbol of America’s long and violent legacy of racism.
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#OTD in 1912 the British passenger liner RMS Titanic hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic at 11:40pm. The ship sank the following morning with the loss of 1,517 lives.
One of the most lingering images of the sinking of the Titanic is that of the band playing, regardless of their own safety, while all the lifeboats sailed away. All eight band members perished that night. Their leader was Wallace Hartley, who had not been famous, but had lived a life of relative obscurity, a life he had devoted to music.
Learn more via the link in our bio 🕯️
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`Captives` explores the experiences of Second World War captives all around the world, through the records of The National Archives.
Discover their stories now (link in bio) @nationalarchivesuk
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‘The most perfect house to survive from the Middle Ages’ Simon Jenkins
Haddon Hall in Derbyshire is 900 years old, has been owned by one family for the duration of its existence and is believed to be one of the most important historic houses in England.
When the lock was turned on Haddon, its contents were left on the walls and on the floors. The dais table remained on its step in the Banqueting Hall, the tapestries on the walls, the fire dogs in the hearths, the pewter in the cupboards. From this, the hall became known as ‘The Sleeping Beauty’ (via @haddonhall
Have you ever visited? 💬
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✨ COVER REVEAL✨ The Duchess of Windsor’s notorious jewellery collection is the subject of intense speculation regarding its murky provenance and its eventual controversial dispersal.
Discover more in `The King`s Loot` (📕 : link in bio)
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