The Ash cloud isn’t new, in 24th August 79 AD when Mount Vesuvius erupted and smothered  Pompeii.  Pliny the Younger described a cloud rising up from the mountain, like “a . . . → Continue Reading In Pompeii they had an Ash Cloud, but the people didn’t escape with their lives!

The Saxon King – The Story of Sutton Hoo tells two stories one of the Anglo-Saxon period, a time of feuding overlords, warriors and kings which ends mysteriously 1,400 years ago while . . . → Continue Reading Sutton Hoo is one of the most influential and important archaeological discoveries ever found in Britain.

Leif the Lucky, the Viking son of the famous Eirik the Red, was living in Greenland and discovered North America around the year 1001. He had heard of an unknown land . . . → Continue Reading Was Leif the Lucky called Lucky because he found America?

The Aztecs originated in Aztlan in North West Mexico and were poor nomads. Using the rich waters of Lake Texcoco they constructed Chinampas, floating garden islands where vegetables and other plants were . . . → Continue Reading The Aztecs constructed Chinampas, floating garden islands where vegetables and other plants were grown.

You need to go back to the Boy King, King Tutankhamun, sometimes called King Tut, who was only 9 when his reign began, married Ankhesenpaaten, who was only 12, and died mysteriously, . . . → Continue Reading Which is the only tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh to be found intact?

In the 18th century there were two famous female pirates on the Spanish Main, Anne Bonny, the daughter of a respected plantation owner who wanted for nothing, and Mary Read who had . . . → Continue Reading How did female pirates Anne Bonny and Mary Read escape the gallows?

In ancient times King Minos ruled Crete from a splendid palace built above a maze of passages and walls, where lived a monster called The Minotaur. King Minos was a powerful king . . . → Continue Reading Theseus used a ball of string to get out of the maze!

In the summer of 1940, which by the way was a nice hot one, Hitler was working on his plans to invade England, which he knew couldn’t happen until his air force . . . → Continue Reading In the Battle of Britain the Luftwaffe outnumbered the R.A.F. three to one and we still won, how?

Henry VIII was married to Catherine of Aragon. They had a daughter, Mary Tudor. Henry was worried a queen would not be strong enough to rule.  He did have a son, Henry . . . → Continue Reading How many of Henry VIII’s daughters eventually became monarchs?

Did you know that Spanish explorers brought horses to North America in the 1600s, and that the Native American Indians quickly began to realise their usefulness in hunting buffalo, with the result . . . → Continue Reading The North American Indians