In a churchyard on the Leicestershire-Rutland border stands a very strange object indeed. Known as The Goddess of Braunston it was discovered in 1920 when builders lifted up a stair and found the other side had a face. No one is certain of its historicity. Medieval experts are not sure it’s a gargoyle, Norman and […]
Read more "The Goddess Of Braunston"Had my mind blown when I passed through Leicester uni campus and saw this cut out of the first class at Leicester uni in 1922. I knew two of them! Miss Bennett (back, far left) and Miss Smalley (back, far right). I visited them in an old people’s home a couple of times when I […]
Read more "History Ain’t Even History"I’ve been a bit listless of late, roaming around on Facebook and stumbling onto ‘New Age’ and pseudo-archaeology groups. The danger of such behaviour is, of course, Facebook’s algorithm supplies you with evermore groups of this nature and my wall is pretty darn nutty right now. I tell myself I’m doing something noble in its […]
Read more "Why Do People (Still) Think The Egyptians Didn’t Build The Pyramids?"It’s bad enough i see people on Facebook saying the Egyptians didn’t build the pyramids but yesterday I bumped into one commenter insisting the romans had electrical machinery and that anyone who couldn’t tell that by looking at their buildings was a fool. I had to reply. I said the Romans would tell us in […]
Read more "Roman Power Tools"Visited the frankly bizarre Rushton Triangular Lodge today, a Tudor folly covered in numbers, shapes and symbolism that no one besides its creator Sir Thomas Tresham fully understands. Likely it’s a quiet protest against Protestantism (he designed it while in prison for refusing to give up Catholicism) though his interest in the esoteric suggests it […]
Read more "Rushton Triangular Lodge"No one takes the Rome-never-happened person seriously on account of her being so ludicrous and thin-skinned. But it’ll only take someone charismatic and superficially reasonable to jump her grift and I’ll be spending my final years being mocked by midwits for believing Ovid wasn’t Stephanie Harris or Zack Snyder or whatever. And it’ll be my […]
Read more "History (increasingly) belongs to the bullshitters"Could- and should- a legal action be taken against The History Channel? If you’re using the word ‘History’ whilst going on about alien conspiracies or Atlantis or some claptrap then surely that’s a clear case of false advertising or misrepresentation of goods and services. And I say ‘should’ because those guys have spent the last […]
Read more "Will someone please sue The History Channel already!"Quite epic huh? Maybe it’s somewhere in the Aegean. Ah, but no; because now you’re looking at the base and thinking it’s far too modern for that. So… London, right? Some public park there or, if not, Birmingham or Berlin or some big old world city. But no. These two Ionian columns stand in Swanage, […]
Read more "The Epic Gothic Strangeness Of This Quaint Seaside Town"The idea of writing a historical novel absolutely terrifies me. Hats off to anyone who does. I love history but the trouble is the people in history insist on leaving piles of written evidence around and, before you know it, you’re researching beeswax candle-making in late 17th century Cleethorpes just so you can write your […]
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J.L. Worrad 