Lots of books about traitors out at the minute. Not sure what that’s all about. But with Hotspur read yesterday, today I turn my attention to John Wenlock, the first lord of Wenlock. Again like Hotspur, this guy had a lot of hats to wear. Soldier, diplomat, politician and courtier. Also ends up being labelled […]

So when we think of the knights of the medieval period, we think of skilled fighters, diplomats and men of virtue and chivalry. By all accounts then you are thinking of Sir Henry Percy. Sir Henry Percy led a brilliant career as a soldier, leader, nobleman, diplomat and courtier for both King Richard II and […]

The True Story of Operation Foxley and SOE. Operation Foxley was the name of the secret plan supported by Winston Churchill to assassinate Hitler in 1944-45. In 1944 the SOE came up with a number of ideas to assassinate Hitler and any high ranking Nazis who were present sat the time of the attack. The […]

Albrecht Duerer is mainly known in artistic circles. He is a great painter of the Renaissance, yet it appears he has written or at the very least contributed to a martial arts manual of 15th Century Germany. The book covers fighting unarmed, with dagger, knife (Messer), and sword. It also covers fighting in armour on […]