Author: Janet MacDonald

These days horses are mainly used for leisure activities the non-rider knows little about them in a modern context, let alone a historical one. For...

Napoleon famously said that an army marches on its stomach, but it also marches in its boots and its uniforms, carrying or driving its weapons and ...

During the Second World War, how were the multitude of items required by the soldiers in the front line selected, ordered and delivered, and how we...

Sir John Moore is perhaps the second most famous British soldier of the Napoleonic Wars after the Duke of Wellington, yet his remarkable career has...

Everyone knows and loves the traditional pumpkin ''plump and golden carved into a Halloween lantern''; and perhaps you''ve prepared a pumpkin pie o...