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Tastes Of History
Dec 14, 2021
Dispelling Some Myths: Sweeney Todd
Fact or Fiction? Despite some believing he was a real person, the murderous ‘Barber of Fleet Street’, Sweeney Todd, is in fact an...
Tastes Of History
Dec 7, 2021
Dispelling Some Myths: Would Mediaeval archers really shoot 12 arrows a minute?
‘Welsh & English longbowman used a single-piece longbow to deliver arrows that could penetrate contemporary plate armour and mail. The...
Tastes Of History
Nov 29, 2021
Black Friday
On November 18th, 1910, three hundred female protesters marched to the Houses of Parliament as part of their campaign to secure voting...
Tastes Of History
Sep 27, 2021
Dispelling Some Myths: Chinese Ironworking
Hosted by the actor Danny Trejo, the US television series 'Man at Arms: Art of War', brought together martial arts experts and master...
Tastes Of History
May 17, 2021
Dispelling Some Myths: "Blood Grooves"
There is a persistent myth about the function of a sword's fuller that it 'releases the vacuum' when the blade is thrust into a person....
Tastes Of History
Apr 29, 2021
Dispelling Some Myths: Dirty water? Drink beer!
For some reason it is often stated on popular television programmes that Mediæval Europeans drank lots of wine, ale or beer all day,...
Tastes Of History
Apr 27, 2021
Dispelling Some Myths: The Amazons
For those studying the ancient Greeks, you will undoubtedly come across tales of the Amazons, the fearsome, man-hating warrior women of...
Tastes Of History
Apr 15, 2021
Dispelling Some Myths: Mediæval Peasants ate Bland Food
The first thing to note is that what people ate was heavily dependent on where they lived and at what time. For example, Europe covers a...
Tastes Of History
Apr 12, 2021
Pompeii, Bodies and Assumptions
Last year, on Saturday November 21st, 2020, the Italian culture ministry announced to the world’s media that archaeologists had...
Tastes Of History
Mar 9, 2021
Pay in the Legions
From the time of the Consul Gaius Marius onwards, legionaries received 10 assēs a day or 225 denarii a year (equal to 900 sestertii)....
Tastes Of History
Oct 3, 2020
Dispelling Some Myths: Ancient Olympic Medals?
'I don’t believe it!' Bargain Hunt strikes again broadcasting 'facts' that are at best described as misleading and at worst simply...
Tastes Of History
Sep 23, 2020
Dispelling Some Myths: An Attack of the "Vapours"
Here at Tastes Of History we are avid watchers of the BBC's "Bargain Hunt". If you are unfamiliar with the show, two teams of amateur...
Tastes Of History
Sep 7, 2020
Dispelling Some Myths: The Wicker Man
The Wicker Man is a giant effigy supposedly used by the Druids to perform human sacrifice, according to the writings of Gaius Julius...
Tastes Of History
Aug 28, 2020
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...
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
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 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
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...
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