by CCash | Feb 16, 2026 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
with Charmian Mansell IIn Shakespeare’s lifetime, travel wasn’t reserved for grand tours or royal progresses — it was woven into daily life. Ordinary Elizabethans crossed rivers, walked muddy roads, boarded boats, hired horses, and rode in wagons for business, family...
by CCash | Nov 17, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
with John Wyatt Greenlee When we imagine Elizabethan dining tables, we might picture roast meats, trenchers of bread, or tankards of ale.But lurking beneath the surface of rivers, marketplaces, and even the economy itself was a creature so valuable that it could pay...
by CCash | Feb 22, 2021 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
When medieval cartographers drew maps of the world they included mermaids among the fantastic ocean beasts that they believed roamed the waters of foreign lands. Professional explorers like Henry Hudson in 1608, described sighting a mermaid in the Northern Atlantic...
by CCash | Nov 2, 2019 | Blog, DIY History
Absolutely! You may even already know about the force of the Puritans in England because they were a big deal. Here's a few things you may find surprising about their relationship to Shakespeare. When you try to talk about the Puritans in Shakespeare’s England, many...
by CCash | Oct 12, 2019 | Blog, DIY History
IMAGE: Squanto or Tisquantum teaching the Plymouth colonists to plant corn with fish. Bricker, Garland Armor. The Teaching of Agriculture in the High School. New York: Macmillan, 1911. Page 112. Source One of the heroes of American history is Squanto. also called...
