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Tastes Of History
Mar 15, 2023
On This Day: Caesar Murdered!
March 15th, 44 BC: Gaius Julius Caesar is stabbed to death. Idibus Martiis (‘the Ides of March’, 44 BC) should have been an unremarkable...
Tastes Of History
Feb 16, 2023
On This Day: Tutankhamun’s tomb unsealed
February 16th, 1923: One hundred years ago today Egyptologist Howard Carter unseals Tutankhamun’s tomb. Despite the builders’ best...
Tastes Of History
Feb 4, 2023
On This Day: Burnt for his Beliefs
February 4th, 1555: John Rogers becomes the first Protestant martyr to be burnt at the stake in Queen Mary I’s persecutions. Formerly an...
Tastes Of History
Jan 22, 2023
On This Day: Disaster at Isandlwana
January 22nd, 1879: The attempt to extend British colonial influence into Zululand is met with fierce resistance as Zulu warriors rout...
Tastes Of History
Dec 20, 2022
Dispelling Some Myths: ‘Blitzkrieg’ was a ‘thing’
‘Blitzkrieg’ is a compound of two German words whose literal translation means ‘lightning war’ [1]. Military historians have defined...
Tastes Of History
Dec 8, 2022
About History: The Who’s Who of Beefeaters
It seems nobody knows for certain why the King’s Body Guard of the Yeoman of the Guard are called ‘Beefeaters’. Over the years various...
Tastes Of History
Nov 25, 2022
The Home Front and Rationing
In the first year of the 20th century Queen Victoria’s 64 year reign came to an end with her death on January 22nd, 1901. She was...
Tastes Of History
Nov 25, 2022
Victorian Schools
We have an image that school days in Victorian Britain were strict and corporal punishment rife. Daily life in the elementary school,...
Tastes Of History
Nov 22, 2022
On This Day: Blackbeard's demise
November 22nd, 1718: On This Day probably the most notorious pirate, Edward Teach, known as ‘Blackbeard’, met his demise. Towards the end...
Tastes Of History
Nov 21, 2022
A Brief History of Food: Victorian Innovation
The Sun never sets When Victoria succeeded to the throne in 1837, Britain was already a global maritime trading power. From the late...
Tastes Of History
Nov 13, 2022
Dispelling Some Myths: 'Trench Art'
One of our favourite sources of entertainment and ideas for this Blog are derived from the BBC’s ‘Bargain Hunt’ television series. As...
Tastes Of History
Nov 7, 2022
About History: the Scold’s Bridle
The ‘Scold’s Bridle’, sometimes known as ‘The Gossip’s Bridle’, was a punishment used officially and unofficially in England to...
Tastes Of History
Nov 1, 2022
Ladies, Lamps and the Crimean War
The Battle of Waterloo, fought on June 18th, 1815, saw the final defeat and exile of Napoleon Bonaparte. Out of a common fear of...
Tastes Of History
Oct 17, 2022
About History: Spectacles
One of the most curious objects in the Royal Armouries collection is the ‘horned helmet’, a bizarre headpiece commissioned in AD 1511 by...
Tastes Of History
Oct 12, 2022
On This Day: Edith Cavell executed
On this day, in the early hours of October 12th, 1915, a British national, still wearing her nurses’ uniform, was led out into a yard at...
Tastes Of History
Sep 19, 2022
Dispelling Some Myths: about Pirates
Asked to imagine or indeed to portray a pirate, most people undoubtedly will have a certain look in mind. Who’s now thinking of Johnny...
Tastes Of History
Sep 13, 2022
Dispelling Some Myths: Cleopatra the 'African' Queen
On August 17th, 2022 the Trimontium Trust (@TrimontiumTrust) reminded Twitter users that Queen Cleopatra of Egypt committed suicide on...
Tastes Of History
Aug 22, 2022
Dispelling Some Myths: Lady Godiva’s naked ride
Did you know the city of Coventry has an official Lady Godiva? To be honest we didn’t until recently when we discovered that Pru Porretta...
Tastes Of History
Aug 20, 2022
The Forme of Cury
The Forme of Cury (‘The Method of Cooking’ [1]) is an extensive 14th-century collection of medieval English recipes. Although the...
Tastes Of History
Aug 15, 2022
Food History: The Inimitable Mrs Beeton
Isabella Mary Beeton (née Mayson) was born on March 14th, 1836. Better known simply as Mrs Beeton, she was an English journalist, editor...
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