History

London's Great Medieval Survivor

How one modest church tower survived war, fire and developers

Jun 16 •

Owen & Katherine - A Rebellious Love with a Remarkable Legacy

Just how did a lowly Welsh squire fall in love with a Queen of England?

Apr 29 •

What If The Princes in the Tower Had Not Disappeared...

Croeso (or Welcome), to another edition of ‘A Chronicle of Dragons & Cats’, and thank you for reading! If you have already subscribed, diolch yn fawr…

Apr 24 •

The Death of Henry VII

On 21 April 1509, the first Tudor monarch died.

Apr 21 •

VIDEO: The Day the Welsh Captured Conwy Castle

A daring scheme by a gang of cunning Welshmen that humiliated the English king

Apr 1 •

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Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus – Happy Saint David’s Day!

But who was Saint David, what is a Welsh costume, and why do we love leeks?

Mar 1 •

The Face of a Tudor King

Westminster Abbey's quest to learn more about Henry VII's funeral effigy

Feb 20 •

Margery Brews and the earliest Valentine's Day letter

‘My heart me bids evermore to love you truly over all earthly things’.

Feb 14 •

The Other Yorkist Pretender

Lambert Simnel, Perkin Warbeck and...who?

Feb 12 •

The Birth of Henry Tudor

and the traumatic ordeal of the child mother who bore him

Jan 28 •

Fancy Owning a Castle?

Well, now you can! (for, um, £21m!)

Jan 21 •

A Perfect Flower of Modesty

The Death of a (Tudor?) Queen and her Dispiriting Treatment in Death

Jan 3 •

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