The Viking Ship Museum in Roskilde was built in 1969 to house the five so-called ‘Skuldelev’ ships. In the late eleventh century, these ships were sunk in a channel at Skuldelev to block access to Roskilde in Denmark. Why the ships were sunk is unknown;...
On 12 January 1893, twenty-two members of the Court of Assistants of the Worshipful Company of Masons gathered at the Hotel Metropole in London. The final item on the agenda of this quarterly meeting concerned the Company’s records and the minutes of the meeting note...
The early history of Christianity in Britain is very obscure indeed. We have sources which tell us that there were Christians in Britain as early as the second century AD, but these are problematic texts and who exactly these Christians might have been is far...
Located on a wall in the north-east corner of Gray’s Inn Chapel, at Gray’s Inn Square, is a small memorial to the men of the 15th and 18th Battalions Royal Welch Fusiliers, aka the 1st and 2nd London Welsh, who were killed during the Great...
In my previous blog [insert hyperlink] I wrote about the newly re-opened London Mithraeum on Walbrook in the heart of the City of London. Walbrook is so named as it sits almost on top of the now-subterranean river Walbrook, which played an important historical role...