History blog

The following rhythmic refrain has helped me to finally commit the order of Henry’s unfortunate wives to memory: Divorced, Beheaded, Died...

Do you recognise this image? It is everywhere nowadays. It is a copy of the original 1939 poster meant for the Briti...

In Scotland, the antiquated expression “Pitt’s picture” refers to ‘blind windows’, which were windows blocked up from the inside in an atte...

Nowadays one tends to think of malaria as an African problem. But in centuries past malaria was the scourge of the Mediterranean, and of Ro...

The Poles have had a particularly hard time of it the past couple of centuries. They have suffered much at the hands of foreigners. But in ...