History Magazine
Jane Boleyn
Jane Boleyn was lady-in-waiting to four queens, two of whom were executed on the orders of their husband, King Henry VIII. Jane was married to Anne Boleyn’s brother George who, like Anne and Jane, was also executed on Tower Green…
Battle of Spion Kop
Fought on 24th January 1900 during the Second Boer War, the Battle of Spion Kop was a disastrous British defeat. Winston Churchill, Louis Botha and Mahatma Gandhi were all present at the battle, and a stand at Liverpool’s football stadium Anfield is named after it…
The Age of Saints
The 5th and 6th centuries are often referred to in Wales as ‘the age of the saints’, a time when the reintroduction of pagan customs with the Saxons from the continent left many Romano-Briton communities pushed back to the peripheries in Wales and Cornwall…
