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Invasion? What Invasion?
Introduction As you may know from the popular histories, the Romans left Britain at 'ten past four on a wet Tuesday afternoon', and...
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Tastes Of History
Aug 25, 2020
Constantine the Godfather
Constantine I, known as the Great, was the first Roman Emperor to openly profess Christianity. He began the empire's evolution into a...
Tastes Of History
Aug 22, 2020
Bosworth Medieval Festival: The Recipes
Like us you were probably as disappointed as we were when Bosworth Medieval Festival had to be cancelled because of the coronavirus...
Tastes Of History
Aug 20, 2020
Pythagoras' Cup
Sometime around 570 BC, Pythagoras of Samos [1] was born. Famous as an ancient Greek philosopher, mathematician, and founder of the...
Tastes Of History
Aug 19, 2020
An Intelligencer's Guide to: Circular Reporting
Circular reporting is where a piece of information appears to come from numerous sources, but in reality is derived from only a single...
Tastes Of History
Aug 19, 2020
An Intelligencer's Guide to: Assessing Information Part Two
In Assessing Information Part One, we looked at how the reliability of sources and the credibility of information can be graded to give...
Tastes Of History
Aug 19, 2020
An Intelligencer's Guide to: Assessing Information Part One
In our first "Intelligencer's Guide" we considered the six questions to ask when investigating any subject. Continually asking "Who?",...
Tastes Of History
Aug 19, 2020
An Intelligencer's Guide to: Asking the Right Questions
Many of us rely on the media to keep us informed. The problem I increasingly find is that much of what we are told or read contains less...
Tastes Of History
Aug 16, 2020
A Brief History of Food: Cheese
As mammals, humans are all supposed to be lactose intolerant and yet more than 70% of western Europeans have no problem drinking milk and...
Tastes Of History
Aug 8, 2020
Pict or Scot: Who's Who?
We were watching another history documentary the other day about the Scottish Wars of Independence in the 13th- and 14th-centuries. This...
Tastes Of History
Aug 1, 2020
A Brief History of Food: Chickens in Britain
The history of the humble chicken's arrival in Britain remains a bit of a puzzle. Found everywhere today, just where did these birds...
Tastes Of History
Jul 30, 2020
The Chinese Xuan Feng or "Whirlwind"
Until the advent of gunpowder, the trebuchet (French: trébuchet) was a common powerful siege engine that used a long arm to throw a...
Tastes Of History
Jul 28, 2020
Dispelling Some Myths: Ancient Britons
In AD 60/61, after appalling treatment by the Romans, Queen Boudica of the Iceni tribe declared war on the oppressors. The Britons sacked...
Tastes Of History
Jul 24, 2020
Dispelling Some Myths: The Truth Behind the Olympic Torch
Let the Games Begin July 24th, 2020 should have seen the opening ceremony of the Games of the XXXII Olympiad of the modern era in Tokyo....
Tastes Of History
Jul 16, 2020
An 18th-century Curry
What to do with leftover lamb from Sunday's roast? Obviously, make an 18th-century curry. The version below is a variation of one by...
Tastes Of History
Jul 15, 2020
Aliens & Pyramids
Introduction A few days ago, CNN Africa tweeted 'The fringe theories long attached to UNESCO sites' [1] introducing readers to some of...
Tastes Of History
Jul 9, 2020
Review: History Channel's Warrior's Way
'Never judge a book by its cover.' I have no idea who first articulated these wise words, but I admit to pre-judging the History...
Tastes Of History
Jun 28, 2020
Stirrups
Origins It is stated [1] that some scholars [2] believe the first true stirrups were conceived in Central Asia during the first century...
Tastes Of History
Jun 21, 2020
Dispelling Some Myths: The 300 Spartans
'The 300 Spartans' is a 1962 film retelling the story of the Battle of Thermopylae (Greek: Μάχη τῶν Θερμοπυλῶν, Máchē tōn Thermopylōn)...
Tastes Of History
Jun 21, 2020
Horrible History: Documentary Re-enactments
Here at Tastes Of History we pride ourselves on trying to be as accurate as possible in what we do, especially when recreating history...
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