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The Strange, True Story of William-Henry Ireland
William-Henry Ireland, only 19, perpetrated the greatest Shakespeare forgery ever attempted. As a result, his father was personally destroyed in a tale worthy of a Greek tragedy, when William, driven by a simple yearning for his father's love, inverted his father's great passion for Shakespeare to impale him on the Great Shakespeare Fraud.
21st February, 2017 in History, True Crime
For as long as they have existed, stock markets have attracted fraudsters. An early stock exchange scam, involving one of the greatest seamen of the age, Lord Cochrane, is a powerful and fascinating tale of greed, deceit and public humiliation. In February 1814, news arrived in D…
22nd April, 2016 in History
Dogs have long been used as metaphors to describe determination and loyalty, as well as tenacity. William Shakespeare too uses these descriptions, but also describes dogs in relation to their role in war and fighting, and his writings have formed a key part of our study of the En…
20th April, 2016 in Archaeology, History
In 2012, the remains of London’s second purpose-built playhouse, the Curtain Theatre, were unearthed in Shoreditch, London by experts from Museum of London Archaeology (MOLA) during exploratory digs. History of the Curtain Theatre The Curtain Theatre was used as a playhouse from…
17th December, 2015 in Natural World, Women in History
It sounds like the beginning of a fairy tale – the story of a poor cabinet-maker’s young daughter who discovered an important and massive fossil at Lyme Regis, Dorset. Mary Anning (1799-1847) unearthed the first complete fossilised skeleton of a ‘fish lizard’ or Ichthyosaurus, wh…
