Today we have a mystery photo: can anyone identify the location? It has a famous Tudor connection...
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22 September, 2009
Mystery Photo Challenge
17 September, 2009
Desktop Siege Engines

Every history fan should have one of these Medieval Trebuchets on their desk, or alternatively an equally effective Roman Onager - according the the blurb the range is up to 20 feet, so plenty of scope for office mayhem...
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09 September, 2009
johnson ben tesco


One of the fun things you can do with a website tracking tool such as Statcounter is to look at the sometimes odd search strings or keywords people enter into Google (or occasionally Yahoo, or sometimes the new-fangled Bing).
Here are a few obscure ones that have recently landed on Cardinal Wolsey's Today in History:
"johnson ben tesco"
"play icy tower vi.3.1"
"cardinal wolsey cabinet"
"cardinal wolsey suicide" [The Tudors on TV to blame for this one...CW]
"oliver cromwell stonehenge" [did he go there?]
"stonehenge scary games"
"tudor food fight"
and would anyone like to own up to ...
"german lady mudfight" ?????
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