Bruce and the Honourable Thing
We’ve all heard of Robert Bruce and the spider in the cave but I have discovered the Bruce family themselves were spiders drawing people into their web. We start with 1066. It was not just […]
We’ve all heard of Robert Bruce and the spider in the cave but I have discovered the Bruce family themselves were spiders drawing people into their web. We start with 1066. It was not just […]
Intermarriage between royal families of England and Scotland
stage 2 of creating a 300 word flash fiction story
Stage 1 of how I write flash fiction. The choice of place.
William the Conqueror’s motives and his actions up to Abernethy
Cnut met the Pope and opened a trading empire of which Britain became a part
Let’s take a look at these Vikings. They come in boatloads, all armed with two swords and a battle axe yet it is only the nobility that can afford proper weapons in Britain and Western […]
I was taught that the Romans left Britain in 410 AD to go to defend Rome. Well, it seems the army was about 500,000 strong and maybe 100,000 were in Britain, so where did they […]
Cecil Rhodes and Military History – I was in the village of Pniel in the Dwars River Valley outside Cape Town, from which grew the two stories, King or Kaiser and Shadows in the Veldt, […]
Mrs Boniface is back in Oakhaven from Germany and her visit to Herr Mann’s Schloss. Not so much a castle as a house and a house needing a bit or repair and some new plumbing. […]