“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote the latter. His wife, Mary Shelley, wrote the former. Better known as Frankenstein. A bit of poetry then a bit of a GB goggle. Go away :o) BTW : Ken Bran is a Belfast Boy…FECK ME !
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Marcus, brother of Titus says on line 280 – Suum Cuique is our Roman justice: I was not taught Latin in school but have come across enough of it throughout my research to be curious. And I’ve read enough Shakespeare to question the image above. Macbeth??? Nope. Fake News. I can conjugate the French verb […]
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In May 2019 I was deep into Double, Double, Toil and Trouble land. 29th May 2019 : “Most Sacrilegious Murder…” said by MacDuff 30th May 2019 : “To know my deed, ’twere best not know myself.” 30th May 2019 : “Out, damned spot! out, I say!” 31st May 2019 : “My bosom franchised and allegiance […]
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Watching the Titus Lector Hannibal Andronicus 1999 film recently got my one & only little grey cell vibrating with questions. Why does T.A. enter Rome as a Roman Warrior carrying the mummified bodies of his 25 sons? Rome? Mummies? How many mummies have been found in Rome then? So far, the computer is telling me […]
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Mmmn. Not a fave of mine even though we did this for my EngLit exam. I prefer the HISTORY behind Chaucer. He married a girl called Philippa de Roet, who had a sister called Katherine, who had a lover called John of Gaunt, who was a patron of Geoffrey Chaucer and the third son of […]
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Said this before. Once or several times. We lived in Bulford twice. It’s eight miles away from Salisbury and Wilton House was a place that I visited quite often. On my own. The first time in 1985. It’s so wonderful to see people like Alexander Waugh doing PROPER research and building on ALL their previous […]
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Yes. Y’all need the money. But what for? Bear with me a mo’ The so-called Charles VI Tarot deck (Charles VI of France/Charles the Mad/Husband of Isabeau of Bavaria/Father of Charles “The Dauphin” later Charles VII/Jehanne d’Arc’s Dauphin) has several cards missing. It is also called the Gringonneur Deck. It may have been of French […]
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The Quality of Mercy. In order to prove a date, I’m chasing a colour. The trouble is – I don’t know which colour! But I’ve a very strong feeling that the answer lies with the 16th (or maybe 17th) century Venetian artists. This line of thought took me to Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice) which […]
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Or Hermes This “mysterious” sign has been used by merchants since AT LEAST the 1300’s But that’s just history. Who wants to know about anything that happened before the 18fiddies? Not MY audience :o)
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Every page of the new resource I’m reading reminds me of Mr Howard. Our Chemistry teacher. Bless him! Mrs Howard was the R.E. teacher and they both lived in an amazing house about 30 seconds walk from my childhood home. They are both long gone and their house (after decades of being left empty) was […]
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Well. That’s distressing!!! When researching, I go back as far as the sources available to me at a certain point in time can take me. Today finds me on page 1 of a book printed in the 19th c (an English translation of the original French…woohoo!) It starts well. Using the ancient Greek sources (?) […]
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Dinosaurs like me grew up with these old Nursery Rhymes. Agatha Christie used many of them in her book titles. See below. BUT : The line – 5, 6, pick up sticks is monumental to me. Why? Because when you find out the date that 5 turned into 6 and 6 turned into 5 … […]
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Hidden History Research 