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Did King James I really enjoy decadent gay orgies? And did Sir Francis Bacon’s nose really fall off? We sift the truth from the inventions and gossip.
King Charles III has taken the throne, but which other King Charles had connections with the Isle of Wight?
The Isle of Wight's Borthwood Copse has been given royal recognition ahead of the Queen's Platinum Jubilee.
Borthwood Copse has been chosen as part of The Queen's Green Canopy's nationwide network of 70 ancient woodlands which will form part of the ancient…
Christmas under the Puritans Both the religious and the secular celebration of Christmas was forbidden by the English Puritan republic, but by no means everywhere with success. There has been no stranger episode in the long history of the English Christmas than the attempt to suppress both the religious and the secular celebrations during the period between 1644 and 1659. Why was it made, and how far did it succeed? John Knox was alone among the great Reformers in condemning all Church festivals and, at any rate until the Civil Wars, few English Puritans seem to have wished to do away...