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...

Here at Tastes Of History we are avid watchers of the BBC's "Bargain Hunt". If you are unfamiliar with the show, two teams of amateur...

The Wicker Man is a giant effigy supposedly used by the Druids to perform human sacrifice, according to the writings of Gaius Julius...

Introduction As you may know from the popular histories, the Romans left Britain at 'ten past four on a wet Tuesday afternoon', and...

Constantine I, known as the Great, was the first Roman Emperor to openly profess Christianity. He began the empire's evolution into a...

We were watching another history documentary the other day about the Scottish Wars of Independence in the 13th- and 14th-centuries. This...

Until the advent of gunpowder, the trebuchet (French: trébuchet) was a common powerful siege engine that used a long arm to throw a...

In AD 60/61, after appalling treatment by the Romans, Queen Boudica of the Iceni tribe declared war on the oppressors. The Britons sacked...