The Prisoners of Pevensey Castle

Built as a Roman fort, by the fifteenth century Pevensey Castle was being used as a state prison. We look at some of the most important prisoners who were kept there. The beginings of Pevensey Castle On the East Sussex coast sits the ruins of one of England’s least well-known and yet most significant castles. […]

Ignatius Sancho (c1729-1780): composer, writer, mentor and friend

When a two year old boy named Ignatius Sancho arrived in England in 1731, an orphan and a slave, it would have been hard for anyone to have imagined that we would still be talking about him nearly 300 years later. Yet that small boy was to make a mark on history, not just because […]

How Anne Hyde changed the course of history

Had Anne Hyde lived beyond 13 March 1671 she would have been Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland, and yet she remains relatively forgotten, lost amongst the more famous Stuart consorts. Married to James, duke of York, the younger brother of Charles II, she did not live to see him become king, but her influence […]