Sunday, 2 October 2022

King Richard III 570

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Today is the 570th anniversary of the birth of the future King Richard III at Fotheringhay Castle. A reconstruction of the northern aspect o...
Saturday, 1 October 2022

Temple Bar

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I came across an interesting concise history of Temple Bar in London from Look Up London  on the internet. This covers the origins of the ba...
Friday, 30 September 2022

Sailing the Roman Mediterranean

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The Washington Post  recently had an interesting piece about an Israeli research project into how the Romans managed to sail loads of grain ...

Thirteenth century faces from Whithorn

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The Daily Telegraph  has a report about recent facial reconstruction work on skeletons found in the the 1950s in the ruins of the choir of W...

A fifteenth century King’s flagship

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The waters of the Baltic have yielded up another historic shipwreck, that of the Gribshunden ,   which was apparently the flagship of King J...

The first new coins to be issued for King Charles III

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The Royal Mint has released the designs for the first two coins to be issued with the name and portrait of King Charles III. They are a 50p ...
Thursday, 29 September 2022

A soldier’s savings from the Wars of the Roses

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The BBC News  website has a report about the sale of a small collection of coins and a gold ring from the time of the Wars of the Roses. The...

One for Inspector Morse?

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The Spectator  has an article by my friend Dan Hitchens about the closure of St Benet’s Hall in Oxford. St Benet’s was a Permanent Private H...