History Magazine
Margaret Cheyney
Margaret Cheney, ‘a very fair creature and beautiful’, was burnt at the stake on 25th May 1537, on the orders of King Henry VIII…
The Pilgrimage of Grace
You may not have heard of it, but The Pilgrimage of Grace was the single largest rebellion in Tudor history and took place in the North of England between October 1536 and January 1537. The common folk were demonstrating primarily against the dissolution of the monasteries and the Reformation, brought about because of King Henry VIII’s ‘great matter’ (his divorce from Catherine of Aragon) and the subsequent break with Rome…
Sir Isaac Newton
“Sir Isaac Newton told us why an apple falls down from the sky, and from this fact it is very plain, all other objects do the same”.
Captain Charles Algernon Fryatt
On 27th July 1916 Captain Charles Fryatt was court-martialled by the Imperial German Navy. He was executed by firing squad the same day. This civilain’s crime? Menaced by U boats he had refused to surrender his ship, deciding instead to ram the submarine…
Grierson of Lag
Scotland is a land of myths, ghosts, kelpies, spirits and the supernatural, The story of Robert Grierson of Lag, the 1st Baronet of Lag is one of the eeriest such tales. Robert Grierson is best known for his brutal treatment of the Presbyterian Scots of southwest Scotland during the “Killing Times” at the end of the seventeenth century…