In April 2022, the BBC published the following article: Mold Gold Cape: Artefact should be on display in Wales – academic – BBC News. In it were complaints from Wales that the above wonderful golden cape was kept in the British Museum, not in Wales. It was explained that at the time of the cape’s…

The Templars are always good to perk up our interest and this time it’s because of their apparent early 14th century connection to central England. Not only their connection, but the Ark of the Covenant’s too! This article—Did the Templars Hide the Ark of the Covenant in England? (ancientoriginsunleashed.com)—describes a startling theory/discovery made at the…

Here we are again, deciding what Richard III’s voice was like. Well, the last time I read about this he was pinned to the West Midlands, presumably because of his early years at Ludlow. Now, according to this link, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13893517/Richard-III-accent-Yorkshire-posh-voice.html, he’s Yorkshire. There’s rather a difference between the two, think you’ll agree. But Yorkshire was…

Recently on my travels I came across the remote little church of St Margaret of Antioch at East Wellow in Hampshire on the edge of the New Forest. Known best as the resting place of the famous nurse, Florence Nightingale, it also has a collection of well-preserved medieval wall-paintings. The church itself was built in…

I’m about to write concerning an Ancient Origins article from 2021 which I have only just come across and which has made me see red. You’ll find it here https://www.ancient-origins.net/history-important-events/richard-iii-0016100. I’m afraid my response is rather long, because once I started there was a lot to set straight. But before proceeding, I have only one…

Well, I don’t know if the above heading is hopeful or not. If you go to this link https://royalcentral.co.uk/royal-news/did-buckingham-palace-just-give-the-thumbs-up-to-a-very-difficult-duke-203309/ you’ll find that its heading is Did Buckingham Palace just give the thumbs up to a very difficult duke? Said difficult duke is, of course, our fifteenth-century Richard, Duke of Gloucester. The present day Richard, Duke…

Today I’m starting way back in time before “our” period. Into the mists, in fact. I live next to the western edge of the Cotswolds (to the right of the isolated hill in the above view), and we have numerous prehistoric sites in Gloucestershire that are, perhaps, not quite as famous as they ought to…

I love to poke around other people’s houses. Well, wealthy people’s houses. You know, those properties that cost £ millions and (preferably) have a history a mile long. So nothing modern, please. Perhaps I should explain that breaking and entering isn’t my modus operandi, rather do I stick to scouring glossy magazines like Country Life…

Castle Camps in Cambridgeshire is probably best known today for its World War II RAF airfield, and the heroic squadrons that operated out of it. There is certainly little sign now of the castle from which the Cambridgeshire village of Castle Camps acquired its name. If you go to this link you’ll read: “….The village…

In researching for a novel set in the reign of Richard II, it’s inevitable that I’ve encountered Chaucer and the pilgrim route along the road from London to Canterbury and Dover. And not only pilgrims, but travellers of all kinds, including those going to and from the Continent. In these days of the internet it’s…