Author Archives: kazhoney
Franklin – ‘Death in the Ice’
Start the year as you mean to go on, is a saying one often hears. Our year has started with a visit to the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich. We were visiting to undertake some research for a possible future … Continue reading
18th Century Crime & Punishment
Crime is fast becoming one of our specialities and on Tuesday, Wel was running our 18th century crime & punishment trials at Colchester Castle in Essex. Some of you might be familiar with our medieval crime & punishment trials, which … Continue reading
Medieval Milling and bread making
Last weekend we were running our medieval milling display at Dover Castle in Kent. As part of the display we bake some medieval breads to show the public so on Thursday last I set about baking some of the breads that … Continue reading
SHP Teachers Conference
We recently made a return to the School History Project Conference in Leeds. We first attended the event many moons ago, back when we were first starting out, under our original name of Discovering Medieval. They very kindly gave us … Continue reading
Traditional Skills Part 1 – Preparing Vellum
I have for many years past had an interest in medieval illumination and calligraphy and as a historian I have a particular interest in the wonderful manuscripts produced in medieval times. I’d already been lucky enough to attend an illumination … Continue reading
Dickens Christmas Carol
So what do people who dress up in historical costume do for fun during their time off over Crhristmas? Dress up in historical costume of course! That, and visit a wonderful, interactive production of ‘A Christmas Carol’ at The Core … Continue reading
Dan Snow & the Anglo Saxons
It’s been an exciting week at Bodiam Castle in Sussex. We have been running the last week of school workshops there this year. We’ve met some lovely schools but we’ve also had some other excitements. Today (14 October 2016) is the … Continue reading
A day at Bodiam Castle, East Sussex
We are very lucky to work at Bodiam Castle in East Sussex every year. Bodiam was our first ever job and we were so excited and nervous when we got the phone call all those years ago, booking us to … Continue reading
Bodiam Game of Medieval Life
I haven’t been blogging much recently, as apart from our usual busy Summer of work at historic sites, we have also been very busy creating a new game for Bodiam castle in East Sussex. We had shown the events organiser one of … Continue reading
Needle Felting Workshop
Ok, I have absolutely no historical ground at all for including this on a historical website as needle felting was apparently only invented in the 1980s but hey, it’s just nice to write a blog about something different, so let’s … Continue reading
Happening History 
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