history
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What was life really like for a Roman slave? Explore daily life, work, treatment, and freedom in this accessible guide to slavery in Ancient Rome.
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The Domesday Book, created in 1086 under William the Conqueror, serves as a detailed record of landholdings and resources in England after the Norman Conquest. North Petherton, a royal area in Somerset, showcases its significance through its land, economic value, and population. The estate included 30 ploughlands, with a mix of Villeins and Bordars, indicating…
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The Cathedral Peaty water ripples around a peaceful little island cemetery, but this river once bubbled with blood, boiling from the clan feud that scars Skye’s landscape. For most, it is a tranquil place to rest; for Skye’s teenagers, it is a place for summer gatherings, to leap from the high banks into the deep(ish)…
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Read here to find out about Skye’s final and bloodies clan battle between the ever feuding MacLeods of Dunvegan and the MacDonalds of Sleat!
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As MacLeod churchgoers settled down for their Sunday worship one fateful May morn in 1578, unbeknownst to them, a band of their rivals slid into shore ready to unleash hell.
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A Story of Steel and Salt, find out how Hugh MacDonald went from a successful Hebridean Pirate to meet a surprisingly salty end. Also, find out how his relationship to the MacDonalds of Sleat has been assumed and mistaken by learning the true identity of Hugh MacDonald.
Ictis Heritage Research - Alasdair MacIlleathain 