Tastes Of HistoryNov 7, 2022About History: the Scold’s BridleThe ‘Scold’s Bridle’, sometimes known as ‘The Gossip’s Bridle’, was a punishment used officially and unofficially in England to...
Tastes Of HistoryNov 1, 2022Ladies, Lamps and the Crimean WarThe 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 HistoryOct 17, 2022About History: SpectaclesOne of the most curious objects in the Royal Armouries collection is the ‘horned helmet’, a bizarre headpiece commissioned in AD 1511 by...
Tastes Of HistoryOct 12, 2022On This Day: Edith Cavell executedOn 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...