Tuesday, 17 April 2018

The tragic death of the Princess during the Plague, 1348


No one is immune from the plague when it strikes England during the Medieval Ages not even royalty like Princess Joan. In fact everyone suffers either directly or through the loss of someone close to them.

The Greatest Ever Escape from the Tower of London, 1716


The greatest ever escape from the Tower of London happened in 1716. Guy Fawkes was not the only person to fail with his insurrection. Another person set to suffer this fate is the Jacobean, William Maxwell, better known as Lord Nithsdale. 

The 1812 Assassination of British Prime Minister, Spencer Perceval

  John Bellingham was a rather unremarkable and unassuming fellow whom history would doubtless have forgotten him had he not met Prime Minis...