His young cleric, Roger of Caen, yawns; he is overwhelmed by what he has heard in the modest hall of Ashgyll Force and terrified about how much he has to remember.Twenty years on from the Battle of Tinchebrai, despite the unseemly haste and connivance of his ascendancy, and his subsequent avarice...
The barracks, a fine Victorian Gothic building in the heart of the Tower of London, is grand enough to house 1,000 men and was built in the 1840s by the Duke of Wellington while he was Constable of the Tower. With revolution in the air in Europe and the Chartists rampaging for political reform in...
Circling VulturesIt was a minor miracle that King Edward arrived at his church for his Christmastide Court on Christmas Day, 1065.He had suffered yet another malady on Christmas Eve and had collapsed into his bed in a state of semi-consciousness. However, the next morning he was there on his thro...