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As we enter the second week of September, the fall bite has really picked up. Water temps are now into the low to mid 60s and right now, the fishing for about everything has been good.
The Causes Of The Wars Of The Roses Explained' The Wars of the Roses were one of the bloodiest periods in English history. After 30 years of conflict between the royal houses of Lancaster and York, ...
King Richard III, whose severely wounded body disinterred from under a parking lot in the British Midlands was confirmed by DNA testing this week, was the last of the 14 Plantagenet monarchs who ruled ...
While walking home from a night out with friends in the Yorkshire city of Eborby, Debby Telerhaye stumbles across what appears to be the body of a woman, possibly a nun, in Ellis’s spooky fifth Joe ...
As we head into the fall fishing season the bite for everything gets better and better. Some leaves on the trees are turning ...
Seward, who has written on the Tudors and the Hundred Years’ War, gives a whirlwind overview of the Plantagenet kings, from Henry II through Richard III (1154–1485). The book focuses on men, battles, ...
A French city which produced 14 English kings is demanding the Crown Jewels as compensation from the Queen for the murder of its last pretender to the throne. Angers, which is in the Loire Valley west ...
There have been 40 monarchs of England/Britain in the 10 centuries since a bastard French-Norman duke crossed the channel in 1066 to conquer and all that. You can count the good kings — that is, ...
We are all determined to learn lessons from the pandemic. For many of us, it has brought the realisation that we take too much for granted. In 2020, as we hunkered down for the first lockdown, the ...
"First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." This quote - often attributed to Gandhi but more likely to have come from a 1914 report to the Amalgamated Clothing ...