Oor Wullie or French William at Hastings
William the Conqueror’s motives and his actions up to Abernethy
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
I made a mistake in the last blog mentioning the alternative route to get silks into Europe was up the Danube. It would be easier to go through the Mediterranean but there may be a […]
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 […]
How id the Vikings come to Britain and what happened when King Alfred burned the cakes
In the last years of the Roman occupation, it seems Britain was still pagan, with druids cutting mistletoe and curing all kinds of ailments with frog spittle and duck feathers. Then a lad called Patrick […]
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 […]
Why the Romans left Scotland
A Cornish tin monopoly existed at the time of King Solomon.
Julius Caesar was sent to Britain to investigate the tin market.