Just a short post today. Yesterday (1st August) was Lammas – the Anglo-saxon festival of loaf-mass, which was an intriguing mixture of Pagan magic rite and Christian blessing (the Wikipedia entry on this is a good starting point to find out more about Lammas). It wasn’t something I had...
History
Ideas to help kids make sense of the present and the future by understanding the past.
The Vikings are coming
Among the plethora of things that have been keeping me busy of late, sewing and costume making have really been up there in the top five time consumers. Not that I am complaining, as the result is being able to spend time with my friends and family being big...
History lesson: Dover Castle
Cooking or doing laundry? Still snowing, but on Sunday we decided to brave it and go for a history exploration day at Dover Castle. We were really lucky because as well as the usual fantastic displays, we arrived in the Keep just in time for a fantastic interactive reenactment...