Shakespeare was a genius. His plots may have been stolen, his knowledge of the worlds about which he wrote flawed and incomplete, but his poetry and his genius as a weaver of narrative threads is unsurpassed, even four hundred years later. How was it that a provincial glover’s son born in the early years of
A team of researchers from St Andrew’s University in Scotland have made an astonishing discovery regarding an ancient ruin at the other end of the country. The rectangular earthworks known locally as “King Arthur’s Hall” on Cornwall’s Bodmin Moor have been found to be much older than had been thought. The name itself was always
Remember, remember, the fifth of November, Gunpowder, treason and plot! I know of no reason why gunpowder treason Should ever be forgot! Read moreInterested in the Killing: Jack Ketch’s Infamous TradeFor children growing up in the United Kingdom, Guy Fawkes night was a hugely fun time. Nestled between the American holidays of Halloween and Thanksgiving,
The story of Robin Hood is a familiar one to almost everyone. His campaign of defiance from his hideout in Sherwood Forest against the evil Sheriff of Nottingham and his master “Prince” John is certainly inspiring, and its narrative echoes can be seen everywhere from Walter Scott to Star Wars. Such characters are always interesting,
HMS Trooper was born into the heart of conflict. Laid down in 1940 and launched in 1942, she was thrown into the heart of the Second World War and the Battle for the Mediterranean. Her career was a short lived but eventful. In little over a year she sank an enemy submarine, the Italian Pietro
The story of the ships HMS Terror and HMS Erebus, and the doom that awaited them in Canada’s frozen north, is among the most harrowing in history. The two ships, and the men who sailed in them, met with tragedy on the Franklin expedition trying to find a navigable Arctic route to the Pacific, and