The battle of Badon Hill was one of
twelve legendary battles from King
Arthur cycle.

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THE BRITONS

The British warriors who fought at Badon had come to call themselves Combrogi (or Cymry), meaning “fellow-countrymen” or “comrades”. The term “Welsh” (meaning “ foreigner”) would have been insulting to these native British warriors.
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The Letter of the Karaite elders of Ascalon (c. 1100) was a communication written by six elders of the Karaite Jewish community of Ascalon, Israel and sent to their coreligionists in Alexandria, Egypt after the fall of Jerusalem in 1099. It is important to the study of the first crusade because it dates only 9 months after the siege, making it one of the earliest primary sources on the subject (most European accounts date...

During my time meeting other people that have the same interests in era of history. I have had some strange and interesting tales about the behavior of some of the people that I have met.

I find even today that some of this historians do not want people to write about Richard III in any other way but to think off him as a wicked hunched Uncle that had ordered the killing of his two nephews.

When I first joined the Richard III society the research officer, was not interested...

The Aftermath


V

Queen Elizabeth’s life was a tragic one as she had heard news of her brother’s execution and the confession that he had made during his torture. No one could do anything to pacify her or was allowed to show her any sympathy. Her life was to fulfil her conjugal duty by bearing children who she...

The Aftermath

IV

Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castle had in employed a Spanish diplomat called Pedro de Ayala to the court of James IV of Scotland. They were convinced that the young man that Henry Tudor called the pretender Perkin Warbeck was indeed the true Richard of York, brother to the Queen of England. He attended Richard of York and Lady Catherine Gordon’s wedding in...