Sign in Subscribe

Topic

History

A collection of 59 issues

Living history

BBC News: Ancient tree 'one of UK's best' An ancient Perthshire yew has made the top 10 in a list of the most important trees in the UK. The Fortingall Yew, which grows at a churchyard near Aberfeldy, could be up to 5,000 years old and is among the

Tudor re-enactment

Fascinating article about Tudor re-enactment at Kentwell Hall in Suffolk BBC News: Upstairs, downstairs. Last weekend I travelled back in time to a place where the worlds of those with lavish lifestyles were of necessity closely intertwined with those who provided them with all their everyday needs - the year

St. Distaff's Day

According to the Book Of Days (scroll down), January 7th is St Distaff's Day. There is no saint called Distaff, it was just the day people were expected to return to work, and work for the women included spinning. Robert Herrick wrote this poem about it: St. Distaff's Day; Or,

The Great Charter

BBC News: Charting out the Magna Carta. The latest chapter in the history of the Magna Carta is the sale of one example of it, sealed by King Edward I and dating from 1297, which has been sold at Sotheby's in New York for Â£10.6m ($21.3m). It

The Vikings are coming!

BBC News: The return of the Viking warship. On Sunday [July 1st], 65 men and women will embark on one of the most ambitious, dangerous and important experimental archaeology projects ever undertaken. They will attempt to sail a reconstructed Viking warship from Roskilde, Denmark, to Dublin, across some of the

Modern History of Britain

Andrew Marr has filmed a series for the BBC on the political, social, and cultural changes in the UK since WWII, called "Modern History of Britain". While you can't get the video outside the UK, each decade has been summarised in a good article, with a selection of reader memories

Everyday history

BBC News: A study of life in the 1930s . From the soup-eating habits of the middle classes to the application of face cream - a pioneering study of everyday life in Britain is celebrating its 70th birthday... and was the inspiration for Victoria Wood's double Bafta-winning drama. A common criticism

Raising Atlantis

BBC News: The wave that destroyed Atlantis. The legend of Atlantis, the country that disappeared under the sea, may be more than just a myth. Research on the Greek island of Crete suggests Europe's earliest civilisation was destroyed by a giant tsunami. Until about 3,500 years ago, a spectacular

Finding history

BBC News: School wall yields historic items. A unique piece of local history has been discovered in the wall of a local primary school in Gravesend, Kent. A bottle containing artefacts from the day in 1893 when building work on Wrotham Road School finished was dug out by workmen building

Neolithic Henge Fest

BBC News: Stonehenge builders' houses found. A huge ancient settlement used by the people who built Stonehenge has been found, archaeologists have said. Excavations at Durrington Walls, near the legendary Salisbury Plain monument, uncovered remains of ancient houses. People seem to have occupied the sites seasonally, using them for ritual

Follow me on Mastodon