Killer Queen: Meet Queen Elfrida – The Original Wicked Stepmother
History has seen some incredible, cut-throat politics and lurid scandals, including the reign of Read More
The Green Children of Woolpit – An Otherworldly Tale That Just Might be True
The story of the Green Children of Woolpit, Suffolk, has always been one of the strangest medieval folktales, and that's up against some pretty stiff competition. If you don't know it, it goes a bit like this…
A Strange Tale
The s...
Clever King Harald: Swift Doom Targets the Viking Who Wants the English Throne – Part II
Harald Hardrada of Norway used cunning and surprising tactics to bring down foes. Although he was wounded in the face during one of his campaigns, he continued to see victory after victory.
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Of all the castles Harald stormed,...
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Killer Queen: Meet Queen Elfrida – The Original Wicked Stepmother
History has seen some incredible, cut-throat politics and lurid scandals, including the reign of Queen Elgiva: a teenage Saxon princess who was caught enjoying a threesome (along with her mother!), in the bed of King Eadwig, on the day of his...
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Burning, Pillaging, and Carving up the Lands: Viking Raids into England - Part II
Vikings in history and popular culture are known as strong and dangerous, bloodthirsty killers, raiders, pillagers – pirates of land and sea. But who were the Vikings, and what were the causes of their raids across Northern Europe during the...
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“Never Before Has Such a Terror Appeared”: Viking Raids into Ireland – Part I
Vikings struck terror into the hearts of many in Europeans—and their reputation still lingers today when you ask a person to describe them. The answers given are that they were violent, hairy brutes, blood thirsty, and a cool people. But who were...
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The Wicked Queen and Her Scandalous Daughter: How Murder & Mayhem Took a Saxon Princess from Palace to Poverty
While we might be gripped by the intrigues, the machinations, and the violence of the Lannisters and the Starks in the Game of Thrones television series and the Song of Ice and Fire series of novels, at the end of each episode or chapter, we can...
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Putting the Sex Back in Wessex: The Scandalous Reign of Queen Elgiva & Her Clash with a Demon-Fighting Bishop
The Queens of England (as in the consorts of Kings) during the early Medieval periods of English history rarely receive any coverage in the history books. Hands up anyone who can name the wife of William the Conqueror? It was Matilda of Flanders...
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The Green Children of Woolpit – An Otherworldly Tale That Just Might be True
The story of the Green Children of Woolpit, Suffolk, has always been one of the strangest medieval folktales, and that's up against some pretty stiff competition. If you don't know it, it goes a bit like this…A Strange TaleThe story is set at...
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Skeletons in the Attic and Babes in the Wood: Surprising and Spooky Yuletide Traditions
Although we nowadays associate ‘Happy Holidays’ with celebrations during Advent and the run-up to Christmas Day and then on to New Year’s Eve (or Hogmanay in Scotland) not that many years ago the ‘Festive Season’ extended beyond the end...
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