The Edward the Confessor sat on the throne in the Bayeux tapestry is a white-bearded old man. His reputation is as a saintly king, a peaceful but ineffectual ruler whose childlessness left the kingdom in chaos after his death. But the full story of the penultimate Saxon king is one of warfare, exile, power struggles and shrewd diplomacy.
As early as 1895 the two mystics published drawings of their vision of hydrogen atoms, the simplest that exist in nature. The pair saw the atom as a transparent, egg-shaped body that contained six smaller bodies in rotation. And inside each of the smaller bodies were three even smaller, heart shaped particles. Leadbeater and Besant called them the “ultimate physical atoms,” and said they were joined together by “lines of force”
There are many churches with round towers in East Anglia, most dating back to Saxon times.
Macmillan published Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother by William Shawcross. The book suffers from the usual bug all biographies and autobiographies suffer from: It shows the life of the subject as the writer wants it to be remembered, not as it was.
The new device called the Mosquito is driving trouble making youths away.
Robert Devereux, was a handsome young man who knew how to pleasure a notoriously flirtatious Queen. As the step-son of the Queen’s former favourite, Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, he was often in her presence.
The concluding part of Shakespeare’s First Tetralogy of History plays features one of the most memorable villains of the stage.
Standing on the windswept coast of Northumberland, Bamburgh Castle is one of the most imposing buildings in the North of England. The desolate but beautiful region of Northumberland has the highest concentration of castles in the world, having been the site of bitter conflict for centuries.
The great buildings I saw in my trip to London.
From Deadlier than the Male: More Prisoners of Eternity.
