by CCash | Jul 13, 2019 | Blog, DIY History
Continuing our series on Shakespeare and Mythological Animals (our new course that will be available in full inside the membership area at the end of July), we are taking a look at the unicorn in Shakespeare's plays. From the Bible to the ships of famous explorers,...
by CCash | Jul 6, 2019 | Blog, DIY History
In the Middle Ages, beastiaries became popular as books of illustrations that collected diagrams nad explanations of all the animals in the world. Each illustration was paired up with a moral lesson, stemming from the idea that the world was the Word of God and every...
by CCash | Dec 1, 2018 | Blog, DIY History, Shakespeare Christmas
Shakespeare uses the word Christmas only four times in his works, but he has an entire play dedicated to the holiday celebration of Twelfth Night. Did Shakespeare celebrate Christmas? “At Christmas I no more desire a rose Than wish a snow in May's new-fangled...
by CCash | Nov 24, 2018 | Blog, DIY History
Image Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squanto#/media/File:Squantoteaching.png Squanto was an American Indian born in the Patuxet Tribe in the late 1500s. He was also brought as a slave to England while William Shakespeare was writing plays in London. He is...
by CCash | Nov 17, 2018 | Blog, DIY History
Image is not mine. It’s from a blog on Elizabethan Food which I encourage you read here. (That’s not an affiliate link, I’m just trying to be very clear that the image is not mine and give credit where it’s due.) Turkeys were exotic animals for...
by CCash | Nov 10, 2018 | Blog, DIY History
It's November and in the US, we are rapidly gearing up for Thanksgiving, which means turkeys, pudding, pies, family, and remembering the story of the Pilgrims who travelled to North America from England as part of a large movement to colonize new lands. Henry...
