tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-55779648196540176772024-02-20T09:52:17.278+00:00History Times HistoryHistory, history and more history! Learning about our past is what leads us to understanding our present, so dive right in and explore the fascinating people and events that go to make up the history of our world. From the dawn of antiquity through to the end of the last century, read intriguing tales of famous historical characters, famous scandals, macabre punishments and deadly diseases, great mysteries and treasures and the tragedies of war. Bring some history into your life today!HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.comBlogger23125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-13436573626110479012014-01-02T14:26:00.000+00:002014-10-12T11:57:52.016+01:00Mystery People of History – Eleanor Cobham, Royal Witch
Have you heard of Eleanor Cobham, a woman from fairly humble
origins who became a royal duchess and then lost everything when she was
convicted of witchcraft? Back in the 15th
century probably the last thing you would expect to find in the English royal
family would be a witch. So you may be
surprised to find that several royal ladies from this period were suspected of
practising theHypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-32755539968770619282013-10-16T17:44:00.001+01:002013-10-16T17:44:26.675+01:00Mystery of the Dark Countess – Was She The Daughter of Marie Antoinette?
First
it was King Richard III under a car park in Leicester, then King Alfred theGreat in a churchyard in Winchester, now archaeologists want to solve a two
hundred year old mystery in Germany by exhuming a corpse that some believe to
be that of Marie Thérèse Charlotte de
Bourbon, the eldest daughter of King Louis XVI and Queen
Marie-Antoinette of France. The scientists are hoping they willHypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-8797629975337121892013-08-11T18:33:00.000+01:002013-08-11T18:33:05.029+01:00The Search for King Alfred the Great
The
search is now on for the mortal remains of King Alfred the Great. After finding the grave of King Richard III against
all odds under a car park in Leicester in August 2012, searching for our lost
monarchs seems to have become bit of a national pastime here in the UK. Now it is the turn of the Anglo Saxon King
Alfred the Great, he of the burned cakes, as his grave has never been
HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-17117756791190420242013-02-23T13:01:00.000+00:002013-08-02T19:45:25.584+01:00The Battle of Fromelles - First World War Tragedy
On the evening of 19th July 1916, British and
Australian infantry attacked across a 4,000 yard section of the German front line at Fromelles. It is situated
south of Armentieres on the Aubers Ridge and an attempt to dislodge the Germans
from this position in the previous year, 1915, had already cost the Allies many
casualties. The battle was partly planned to divert GermanHypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-89770665836353329652013-02-08T18:08:00.000+00:002014-09-16T09:26:33.151+01:00Albigensian Heresy – Who Were the Cathars?
Some events can change the course of history in a
country or region, and the rise of the Cathars in the area known as the
Languedoc was one of these important historical flashpoints. Today the
Languedoc is a peaceful, largely rural, region in the south west of France,
stretching from the snowy peaks of the Pyrenees in the west to the borders of
Provence in the east. It is a landscape of sun HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-3299037108786480792013-02-02T18:54:00.000+00:002013-02-02T18:54:56.280+00:00How to Murder Your Medieval Royal Relatives
You would think that being a member of the royal family
would set you up for a life of luxury and security wouldn't you? Well you would be wrong as being a royal in
history has sometimes been a very hazardous occupation, especially if you were
a royal child. If we travel back to
medieval times and take a look at the history of the English royal family, you
will soon HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-40368457886898460982013-01-28T19:30:00.000+00:002013-01-28T19:30:48.443+00:00Anne and Isobel Neville – Pawns in the War of the Roses
Do you have a glamorous view of history? Do you think that
the Anne and Isobel Neville lived exciting, dazzling lives or were controlled
as pawns in a high risk political game? Much of how we perceive our past has
been shaped by films, TV and historical novels where handsome knights romance
beautiful ladies in gorgeous frocks. The reality, however, was somewhat
different. For most HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-65273043060280918542013-01-19T11:46:00.002+00:002013-01-19T11:46:42.729+00:00Mystery People of History - Lambert Simnel
It is said that on 24 May 1487, a youth known as Lambert
Simnel was crowned as King Edward VI in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin in a
bid to wrest the crown of England from the new Tudor monarch Henry VII. England
in the latter part of 15th century had been torn apart by the War of
the Roses, where the Lancastrian and Yorkist factions battled each other for
supremacy and the crown passed backHypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-15512662084585760472013-01-13T17:15:00.000+00:002014-10-18T13:01:54.075+01:00Mystery People of History – Francis Lovell
Francis Lovell was born in 1454 in a country that was riven
by civil war; a conflict that was known as the War of the Roses. He was the son of Joan Beaumont and John, the
8th Baron Lovell of Titchmarsh, who had sided with the Lancastrians
and King Henry VI.
In 1465 Lord Lovell died leaving Francis as his heir. He became a ward of the Yorkist King Edward
IV who put him in the HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-31579684376749631642012-09-23T14:41:00.003+01:002014-04-07T11:40:46.095+01:00Omm Sety - The Mysterious Lady of Abydos
The Beginning of the Mystery
The mysterious Omm Sety started her life on 16th January 1904 as a very ordinary Edwardian little girl called Dorothy
Louise Eady. Her father was a master tailor by profession and along with her
mother they all lived in the prosperous London suburb of Blackheath.
The strange events that would eventually mark her out as a mystery
person of history began in HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-20642492624635436122012-09-13T18:12:00.000+01:002012-09-13T18:12:00.320+01:00Have They Found the Lost Burial of King Richard III?
You would expect to find a medieval king of England buried in
an elaborate marble tomb in an important ecclesiastical building such as Westminster
Abbey or St George’s Chapel in Windsor. But for the last Plantagenet King of
England, Richard III, there was no such impressive memorial to commemorate his
life and reign and the location of his grave was an unsolved mystery for
hundreds of years.&HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-32850042661245984222012-03-15T17:11:00.000+00:002012-03-15T17:11:52.917+00:00Lord Stanley – A Man for All Allegiances
One of the most difficult choices that any 15th
century English nobleman had to make was where his loyalties lay. In theory it should be a simple matter of
pledging his loyalty to the King, but in the troubled times of the War of the
Roses the political terrain was a great deal more complicated, and there were
tangled family ties and loyalties to consider as well as a duty to crown and
HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-18500689566774162642012-02-14T22:30:00.000+00:002013-12-12T13:44:37.781+00:00Ancient Egyptian Queens – The Mystery of Kiya
Canopic Jar of Kiya - Metropolitan Museum of Art
Have you heard of an Egyptian queen called Kiya? Many of us know the names and a little bit about the lives
of the most famous of the ancient Egyptian queens, such as Cleopatra,
Hatshepsut and the beautiful Nefertiti, but how much do we know about the
scores of other women who once wore the crown of Egypt? An Egyptian pharaoh could haveHypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-2837279988117479352012-01-28T13:25:00.000+00:002014-02-19T16:44:27.538+00:00The Cathars and the Start of the Inquisition
For many of us the Inquisition brings up frightening images
of black robed men questioning terrified prisoners, torturing them and then
having them burned at the stake. Most of us also associate the Inquisition with
the Spanish Inquisition in the 15th and 16th centuries,
which was set up to guarantee the orthodoxy of people who had converted to
Catholicism from Islam and Judaism. So you may be HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-69363564573223045402012-01-12T19:11:00.000+00:002012-02-23T10:51:43.598+00:00Thomas of Lancaster – An Unlikely Saint?Religious and spiritual life in Europe in the Middle Ages
was dominated by the Catholic Church, and every person from the King down to
the lowliest peasant lived lives that were ordered around the beliefs,
ceremonies and doctrines of that Church. The medieval world was one where
heaven, hell, angels, devils and saints were very real, and every parish church
would have had brightly coloured muralsHypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-58628076267486446852011-12-12T17:53:00.001+00:002012-03-11T16:43:31.683+00:00Mystery People of History – Perkin Warbeck, Prince or Pretender?
Few mysteries of history have fascinated us as much and
prompted so much speculation as the mystery of the disappearance of the Princes
in the Tower. Were the two young princes
really murdered in their beds, and if so who by and why? Or were they somehow
spirited away from the Tower of London in secret and taken to a safe place to
live out their lives in obscurity?
Against the chaosHypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-57622874510120846732011-12-12T17:30:00.000+00:002012-02-23T10:55:34.889+00:00Famous Royal Mistresses – Prinny and Mrs Fitzherbert
When is a famous royal mistress not a royal mistress? When
perhaps, like Mrs Fitzherbert, she may actually have been a royal wife? The
British Royal Family has been much in the news recently, with the wedding of
Prince William to Kate Middleton having just taken place at Westminster Abbey,
but members of our Royal Family have throughout history found themselves the
centre of attention, written HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-80610500038464336792011-12-08T12:39:00.001+00:002014-08-14T10:52:11.598+01:00Paneb – An Ancient Egyptian Bad Boy?Have you ever heard of Paneb, the notorious Ancient Egyptian
bad boy? These days we hear horror stories on the news all too often about
people who commit murder, violence, and theft and display general bad
behaviour. But would it be any comfort to you to know that these stories are
nothing new, and that even in a small worker’s village in Ancient Egypt there
was one of these rascally characters HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-76922291968381718932011-11-29T18:19:00.001+00:002014-08-02T19:32:30.940+01:00How To Murder Your Tudor Royal Relatives – King Henry VIII
So how many of his own relatives do you think that King
Henry VIII murdered? Well of course he
would probably argue that he had them legally executed and that after all he
was the king? Most of us these days would be horrified at the idea of sending
one of our nearest and dearest to the block, but even now the police will
always have a good look at the relatives first if someone is found HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-57498257417851905162011-11-27T18:26:00.001+00:002014-07-06T19:42:08.807+01:00Cathar Heresy – Count Raymond VI of Toulouse
During the time of the Albigensian Crusade, the most
powerful nobleman in the Languedoc was Count Raymond VI of Toulouse. When we look at momentous events in history
like the Albigensian Crusade, it is sometimes only too easy to lose sight of
the fact these were real people that were involved. That it was the
personalities and temperaments of these individuals that helped to shape the
HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-71401184705685524962011-10-16T21:00:00.000+01:002012-02-23T11:13:34.221+00:00The Gunning Sisters – A Georgian Cinderella Story
When you were younger did you ever dream that one day you
would meet a prince, be swept off your feet, and then get married and live
happily ever after? Well, then you may not
be too surprised to learn that during the Georgian period two beautiful sisters
from fairly humble origins took London Society by storm and then married into
some of the most aristocratic families in the land. TheseHypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-47183782326197226102011-10-05T13:17:00.000+01:002012-02-23T11:13:49.509+00:00The Extraordinary Murder of Stanford White
Imagine that you are part of High Society in New York at the
turn of the 20th century. You
are relaxing with your friends, the drinks are flowing and you are all enjoying
the premiere of a new musical show called ‘Mam’zelle Champagne’ being staged at
the fashionable Madison Square Roof Garden when all of a sudden a smartly
dressed man in an unseasonably heavy overcoat walks up to a table HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5577964819654017677.post-12643723186205663732011-09-05T13:45:00.003+01:002012-02-23T11:14:05.569+00:00Mystery People of History – Arthur Duke of Brittany
Poor old Arthur of Brittany! They say that you can choose
your friends, but you cannot choose your family, and for this royal prince,
born into a brood of constantly fighting and cantankerous Plantagenets, this
was a very apt saying. There have been
many mystery people of history and in medieval times even a royal prince could
disappear without trace. Probably the most famous princes to HypnoGirlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15620669278505860135noreply@blogger.com0