Author: Jill Armitage

Eyam (pronounced Eem), given the Saxon name Eaham, meaning a well-watered hamlet, is a secluded Peak District village hemmed in by green slopes and...

When an Anglo-Saxon chieftain named Snot settled in the area and built a wall around the town, he named it Snottingham, meaning homestead for his p...

Secret Shepperton explores the history of the town from its early origins as an Iron Age settlement nestling on the banks of the River Thames. Its ...

In 1562, Elizabeth I, the last of Henry VIIIs children, lay dying of smallpox, and the curse of the Tudor succession again reared its head. The que...

In 1562, Elizabeth I, the last of Henry VIIIs children, lay dying of smallpox, and the curse of the Tudor succession again reared its head. The que...

When Mary Stuart was forced off the Scottish throne she fled to England, a move that made her cousin Queen Elizabeth very uneasy. Elizabeth had con...

Queens Cartimandua and Boudica were both Celtic noblewomen, recorded by classical writers as part of a tradition of women who showed particular cou...