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Divorced, beheaded and died. Divorced, beheaded survived. I'm Henry VIII I had six sorry wives, Some might say I ruined their live...

Gertrude Margaret Lowthian Bell was born on this day (14 July) into a wealthy family in Washington New Hall in County Durham, England in ...

Gertrude Caton-Thompson While thinking of my Historical Women series, I also thought about how many amazing female archaeologists I kno...

"We cannot find our future if we forget our past." ~ Alaa Awad, modern Egyptian artist I have been watching this three part docume...

Yesterday, I went to see the Swedish production of Andrew Lloyd Webber's famous musical Phantom of the Opera at the teather  The mus...

There is a lot to say about the christmas traditions and their history and I could spend this Christmas Eve post on talking about how the ...

Not much is known Of early days of chess Beyond a fairly vague report That fifteen hundred years ago Two princes fought, though brothers For...

The Wars of the Roses is a difficult period in the history of England. Conn Iggulden starts his series about the period with the death o...

Even if it cannot be seen on this blog (yet), I do have more nerdy favourites than Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries . My second largest is...

You probably have seen a lot of memes on the Internet in the last couple of years. Often these are made to joke about or ridicule something....