Few of us are born it would seem to make history, books will not be written about us, statues will not be erected in our honour. Yet we live and we die, are remembered by some and not by others and in our brief time in the present as the product of a past unseen we help forge the future that remains as yet unknown - we exist, we change lives, we are the builders of worlds. Once born we cannot cease to have been - we are all prisoners of eternity.
Prisoners of Eternity is history in its broadest sense from the dawn of time and across the globe. It tells the story of us, of our art, our poetry, the facts and the myths, the triumphs and the disasters. It does so without prejudice and seeks to propagate no agenda. It merely tells the story for though history is open to interpretation it is not subject to change.
Vespasian: Year of the Four Emperors
Just before midnight on 8 June, AD 68, the Emperor Nero rose from a deep sleep to find no sentry at his door, no one standing watch over him and that...
William Hogarth: London's Critical Eye
If Jane Austen’s novels captured the latter part of the Georgian Era in all its country house grandeur then the picture painted some decades earlier by the...
Executing the Romanovs Executing
St Petersburg was in turmoil, there were street protests daily, bread riots were commonplace and the troops had refused to fire on the people. So bad had...
French Revolutionary Calendar French Revolutionary
Revolutions are rarely as they first appear but merely the (often) violent overthrow of one regime and its replacement by another with the hopes and...
Defending the Alamo Defending
On 2 October, 1835, Mexican Troops arrived at the town of Gonzales in Texas to retrieve, a cannon that had been provided for the local townspeople to...
The Suffragettes: Votes for Women
Can a morally defensible cause justify in and of itself the means adopted to achieve it? It was a question that would vex the various groupings which...
Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Born in London on 26 December 1716, to a family prosperous enough for him to have little need of gainful employment Thomas Gray was to a Cambridge...
The Glorious Revolution The
On 6 February 1685, as he lay upon his deathbed breathing his last King Charles II converted to the Roman Catholic faith. He would like to have done so...
Queen Victoria's Coronation: A Botched Affair
At 6 o'clock on the morning of 20 June 1837, the young Princess Alexandrina Victoria of the House of Hanover and Saxe-Coburg Saalfeld was awoken to be...