Frank Ryan (1902-1944), Irish Socialist Republican Icon
Frank Ryan, born in Limerick, Ireland, joined the Irish Republican Army at 16 during the War of Independence, and fought against the Anglo-Irish...
10 Things You Should Avoid if You Hate Nazis
A slightly humorous list of 10 contributions to civilization by history's most famous villains.
As we all know from school, from literature and from...
The English in Malta 1530-1600, part 1
Most references to the British in Malta are to its role during the Second Word War. However the British Knights were important in...
Silbury Hill: Ancient Mound of Mystery
Another of the great prehistoric mysteries still with us in Britain is Silbury Hill, which is situated not far from the recently mentioned Avebury.
Many...
Avebury Hill: More Majestic Than Stonehenge
The bulk of international attention on monolithic rings is often focused on Stonehenge; but to many people, the rings at Avebury are far more...
Cadbury: Was It Camelot?
It has been put forward that Camelot as the romance authors would have us fancy it did not exist, at least not for Arthur....
The Arthurian saga: fairy tale, folktale, mystery, morality play
I think the Arthurian story still fascinates so many people because it has all the good elements of a fairy tale, a folktale, a...
The Trojan War: Another Look
So says Iman Wilkens in his wonderfully entertaining historical expose Where Troy Once Stood. Wilkens says that Troy was in England and that Mycenae...
The Odyssey: Adventure Story or Coded Message?
And as equally astounding to historians and traditionalists as Wilkens’s placing of the Trojan War in England is his assertion that the Odyssey does...
Hoarding: A Bronze Age Conundrum
The Agricultural Revolution was already a century old when the Bronze Age began. Bronze tools helped further farming efforts. Remains of agriculture implements and...