by Giles Broadbent | Nov 28, 2022 | Story
It is a love story between a dashing superstar and a captivating beauty. But while history remembers him as a hero, Emma’s reputation was trashed The story of Horatio Nelson may be filled with blood and honour, heroism and sacrifice but it is essentially an...
by Giles Broadbent | Nov 15, 2022 | Blog
These delightful words from Middle English have found ways to smuggle themselves through the centuries to stay part of our lexicon of modern life English has become the universal language of the world for a couple of reasons. The first is how widespread it has become...
by Giles Broadbent | Nov 7, 2022 | Story
Mutiny? Over a Bounty? Perhaps it’s time to return to the origin story of betrayal – and one of history’s biggest hatchet jobs on Captain W Bligh The year is 1801, two decades after the Mutiny On The Bounty. Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson engages a tenacious Danish...
by Giles Broadbent | Jun 24, 2022 | Blog
What do a gross intestinal stone, landmark consumer law and magic have in common? All of those things come together at the King’s Bench of 1603. The King’s Bench was the most senior court of Common Law in England for most of its existence starting in the late 12th...
