History Magazine
The Female Spies of the SOE
After France signed an armistice with Germany in June 1940, Great Britain feared the shadow of Nazism would continue to fall over Europe. Dedicated to…
Catherine Parr or Anne of Cleves – the real survivor of Henry VIII
Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived; the tale of Henry VIII and his six wives. The rhyme suggests that his final wife, Catherine Parr was the survivor of the notorious womanizer, but is that really true? What of his fourth wife, his ‘belov’d sister’ Anne of Cleeves?….
Mungo Park
Mungo Park was a Scottish physician and explorer, who in the 18th century travelled thousands of miles within deepest Africa, surviving native attacks, fever and imprisonment – he was even mistakenly presumed dead…