Today in 1600, a young prince was born to King James I and his wife Anne of Denmark. This prince, the couple's second son, would go o...

Guy Fawkes by Cruikshank Remember, remember!   The fifth of November,   The Gunpowder treason and plot;   I know of no reason  ...

Sir Walter Raleigh by an unknown artist On this day in history, 1618; sir Walter Raleigh was beheaded upon the orders of James I. But...

On a muggy August day in 2002 Alexandra Lind is inexplicably thrown several centuries backwards in time to 1658. Life will never be the s...

Having spent three years of my life in Winchester, I feel a certain affinity to the city and in particular the role that it played in the...

1685. King Charles II dies unexpectedly, and is succeeded by his brother James II, England's first Catholic monarch since Bloody Mary...

It's been a couple of years since I was last at Tudor House. Last time I was there the place was a building site, part way through a ...

On 2nd September 1666, disaster struck London. At around 2am that morning, in the house of John Farryner, a baker in Pudding Lane, a fire...