TRUMP IS HUMAN AFTER ALL – HE OWNS A DOG!
An American president needs a dog as much as he needs a First Lady. George Washington began the custom of the presidential dog with Sweetlips and it continued with Thomas […]
THE STORIES IN BETWEEN
Most people know the big events in history and the big names; Julius Caesar, Queen Elizabeth I, Napoleon, Hitler, Churchill. But some of the most interesting stories and people have either been ignored or are little known to the non-academic reader.
These are the personalities and events that History Bound has set out to reveal. For instance our first story is that of the Elizabethan adventurers who went East rather than West. Most people know the stories of Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins and Sir Walter Raleigh and the conflict in the Caribbean against the Spanish. But how many know of the contemporary Sherley brothers and their secret mission to persuade the Persians to join a European alliance against the common enemy, the Turks?
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The Stories In Between
Coffee not champagne toasted the recent nuclear agreement between Iran and the USA
Appropriately, Iran, then known as Persia, had helped introduce coffee to the west. When a party of Elizabethan travelers visited Persia in 1598 they saw people saw sitting, cross-legged and […]
CHARLES AND GEORGE – ROYAL FANS OF THE IRISH
Prince Charles’s recent visit to Ireland had an uncanny similarity to that of his ancestor King George IV in 1822. Both controversial figures at home, they found an affinity with […]
Phone Tapping 1800s Style
Suspicion of immigrants is nothing new in Britain. In the 1790s it was thought that refugees from revolutionary France would infect Britain with republicanism. Today it is the threat of […]
Ripping Times with the Suffragettes
Who would ever think that a respectable middle-class English woman could attempt to brutally damage a great work of art in the centre of London? But this is exactly what […]
THE ARCHBISHOP’S TEETH
When workmen began extending the railway line at St Pancras Station in 2002 to take in the new Channel Tunnel Rail Link they made a gruesome discovery. Cutting through the […]
THE PORTRAIT WHERE TWO CULTURES MEET
No painter has done more to define an era than Sir Anthony van Dyck with his portraits of regal majesty, gilded youth and feminine beauty. They show an age of […]
DONT GIVE A WOMAN A GUN?
Women fighting in the British army – whatever next! But this was inevitable after the USA led the way by repealing the act that banned women from serving in the […]