RICHARD BUSBY (16o6-1695) Modern perceptions of the classical education available at the famous English Public schools of Eton and Harrow owe  a lot to how those places evolved and established systems of education in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Yet one man above all can be argued to have done the most to influence […]

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£1.3 grant from National Lottery secures future of The Staffordshire Horde It has been confirmed this week (article written March 20th) that a £1.3 grant from the National Lottery added to £2 already rasied by a public appeal is sufficient to safeguard this historic collection and keep it in the Midlands for the future generations. […]

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The telling and guessing of riddles was a popular pass-time for the Anglo-Saxons. Often these riddles had double meanings – a blatant sometimes sexual one and a more subtle true answer.  The riddles became steadily more elaborate and some are very obscure. Not many of these riddles exist today but The Book of Exeter survived Henry VIII’s destruction of the monasteries […]

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Harvest time was a very important and serious point in the year associated with rituals and thanksgiving after it was completed. There was no Asda or Wallmart to go to. Our ancestors lived much closer to and were far more dependant on the land than we are today. How did they preserve food and store it […]

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After the Romans left their province of Britannia, Britain entered a darkage. It would be centuries before the land we know today as England came into existence. Germanic tribes – the ancestors of the English began migrating across the North Sea. The invading and colonising Angles who settled in the northeast in time would see […]

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