by David West | Nov 29, 2024 | News
On 29th November 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite army moved into Manchester and occupied Carlisle. Bonnie Prince Charlie, born Charles Edward Stuart on December 31, 1720, was a charismatic figure who became the symbol of the Jacobite cause to restore the Stuart...
by David West | Nov 28, 2024 | News
Eleanor of Castile died on the 28th of November 1290. After her death, her husband King Edward I, known as Longshanks, commissioned the famous Eleanor Crosses, a series of twelve lavish monuments erected at the places where her funeral cortege rested on its journey to...
by David West | Nov 27, 2024 | News
I’m trying to be talked about now. I want my website to attract attention and hopefully sell my books, The Sir Anthony Standen Adventures. But I’m unlikely to be successful as Theodore Hook. The Berner’s Street Hoax was an elaborate prank orchestrated by the English...
by David West | Nov 26, 2024 | News
The On This Day website tell me that on 26th November 1476 Vlad III, known to history as Vlad the Impaler or Vlad Dracula, with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory defeated Basarab Laiota to become ruler of Wallachia for the third time. His legacy is a...
by David West | Nov 26, 2024 | News
I use the On This Day website for inspiration more than fact. It says that on 3rd December 1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduced potatoes to England from Colombia. I can’t find a Sir Thomas Herriot, but there was a Sir Thomas Harriot. Harriot became a close associate of...
