What would John Donne's London have looked like? What would the streets of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century London looked like? What would you have seen as you walked through town? Shopfronts, vistas, church squares? How did vendors display their wares? What were the street surfaces like? Buildings? Wharves down on the river? Tags: London Early Modern Architecture Videos Everyday folk Read more about What would John Donne's London have looked like?
Yes, football caused riots in medieval England, too. Scholars of sport have long known that football -- or soccer, for you Americans -- was played in the fifteenth century. However, local historians in easetern England recently discovered an account of a 1320 football game (known as "campyng" or "campball") that may have ended rather nastily. The court document reported Tags: British Isles Sport Everyday folk Read more about Yes, football caused riots in medieval England, too.
