In honor of Valentine’s Day, a little history of wedding cakes to start your History a’la Carte.

And now, a  new installment of History a’la Carte to start the new year. I am always amazed to find out how much I didn’t know that I didn’t know.

• Tea Time-Buyer Beware
• Bon Aperitif!
• Poetry, pain, and opium in Victorian England: Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s use of laudanum
• Medicinal Compounds, Efficacious in Every Case  
• Exeter Bread Riots 1854

• The “English Sound” in the Late Medieval Catholic Church
• Instrument Biography: The Psaltery 

• A word or two about the British monarchy…
• Why did Shakespeare portray Richard III as a villain?
• Facial reconstruction of Richard III 
• What happened to the princes in the tower?
• Will DNA prove the princes lived?

• The publication of Pride and Prejudice 
• Atom Theory in Ancient India
• Army pay: A shilling a day
• Poet’s Corner
• The Archbishop Who Defied Two Kings: Anselm of Canterbury 

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