Historical Hussies

© Cheryl Bolen Though the Duke of Somerset was executed in 1552, the huge building still bearing his name sits in one of the most prime l...

©By Cheryl Bolen Before England's King George IV became prince regent (a title more identifiable with him than his eventual monarc...

by Regan Walker While doing the research for Rogue Knight , my new medieval set in 11 th century England, I learned a lot about t...

     Today we buy our cleaning goods and our remedies in ready-made bottles and cans and boxes. Prior to the era of mass manufactur...

by Donna Hatch Throughout most of history, travelling, especially long distance, was a dangerous undertaking. Some of the many dangers...

©By Cheryl Bolen It is difficult for those of us in the twenty-first century to possess the knowledge our Georgian heroes possessed. ...

Sir Thomas Lawrence, Portrait of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington By Donna Hatch Next to the royal family, the most dist...