While teaching primary school children about the Romans, and specifically hygiene, we have encountered the belief that they cleaned their...

Urine has been used throughout history for many different uses. As a freely available product - everyone produces at least some each day...

In our post ‘Dispelling Some Myths: Romans in the Americas’ we attempted to disprove a ‘theory’ that the ancient Romans had contact with...

In the big scheme of things today’s post is a very minor ‘gripe’. It does, however, reflect on the historical accuracy of television...

The mosaic floor pictured (right) is housed in a gallery dedicated to ancient Roman frescoes and mosaics on the second floor of the...

A recent search of the internet for information on Roman artillery machines returned, amongst other results, a website with a page...

Farinata (‘made of flour’), a classic Italian street food, apparently enjoys two provenance myths according to BBC History Magazine [1]....

It is widely held, and oft repeated, that ancient Britons, and most especially the Picts, painted or tattooed their bodies with Woad.We...

Somehow we got talking about ghosts a couple of days ago. We both were reminded of working at Tutbury Castle in Staffordshire and how it...

Fact or Fiction? Despite some believing he was a real person, the murderous ‘Barber of Fleet Street’, Sweeney Todd, is in fact an...

‘Welsh & English longbowman used a single-piece longbow to deliver arrows that could penetrate contemporary plate armour and mail. The...

On November 18th, 1910, three hundred female protesters marched to the Houses of Parliament as part of their campaign to secure voting...

Hosted by the actor Danny Trejo, the US television series 'Man at Arms: Art of War', brought together martial arts experts and master...

There is a persistent myth about the function of a sword's fuller that it 'releases the vacuum' when the blade is thrust into a person....

For some reason it is often stated on popular television programmes that Mediæval Europeans drank lots of wine, ale or beer all day,...

For those studying the ancient Greeks, you will undoubtedly come across tales of the Amazons, the fearsome, man-hating warrior women of...

The first thing to note is that what people ate was heavily dependent on where they lived and at what time. For example, Europe covers a...

From the time of the Consul Gaius Marius onwards, legionaries received 10 assēs a day or 225 denarii a year (equal to 900 sestertii)....

In 'Kitchenalia' we introduce objects from different historical periods, discover a bit about their history and find out how each was...

'I don’t believe it!' Bargain Hunt strikes again broadcasting 'facts' that are at best described as misleading and at worst simply...