Historical Hussies

In 1901 two very meek looking friends developed a vehicle they dubbed the Harley Davidson motorcycle. Built in the small shed of their Wisc...

I first came across English courtesy titles, not that I knew what they were, when I read Dorothy L. Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey mysteries...

Spectacles, or eyeglasses as we know them today, have experienced a big transformation since their inception over 800 years ago. The glass...

Do some scenes go too far? In Schindler's List , the movie opens with the Commandant of a concentration camp in full coitus with a pret...

Titles are everywhere in Regency romances. In these stories, you can't walk down the street without brushing shoulders with the titled n...

I emailed the curator who took us on the palace tour, and received the following email after posting my blog on Palace Secrets and King Henr...

On a recent trip to London, I was privileged to join a small group of people who took an archaeological tour through Hampton Court. The tour...