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December 2025

Did Richard III plot murder in Cumbria?
Duke of Gloucester, an alleged hunchback, ruled North of England for 14 years. Critics say he used Carlisle and Penrith castles to plan murder of…
 • Paul Eastham
How William the Conqueror doomed the Cumbrian economy
The Bastard killed 150,000 people, shut North’s crucial Baltic trade, made 95% of peasants landless serfs, left roads, bridges, towns in ruins and…
 • Paul Eastham
Magical secrets of the legendary axe makers
Amateur archaeologists found two 20 tonne boulders carved with mysterious circles, spirals and a triangle. It was a gateway to 6,000-year-old factory…
 • Paul Eastham
Murder, poison and strange intrigues at old Furness Monastery
Built in a remote valley to encourage peace and contemplation, abbey became den of luxury, smuggling, four murders and disastrous rebellion against…
 • Paul Eastham
The Viking lord who fought the English...for Cumbria
Expelled "half dead" from Dublin in 902 AD, Norse won refuge from Celtic kings. In return, Scandinavians adopted Christianity and repelled Cumbria's…
 • Paul Eastham
How Venutius, the divorced Cumbrian king, thrashed Romans
In 69 AD, Celtic Queen of North, Cartimandua, dumped her husband, Venutius, and married his servant. Humiliated, he dethroned her and defeated the…
 • Paul Eastham
Have they found King Arthur’s Cumbrian HQ?
Ancient timbers found in Carlisle may indicate Celtic chieftain reoccupied Hadrian's Wall when Romans departed - to fight the Anglo-Saxons
 • Paul Eastham

November 2025

The historian who hid the kingdom of Cumbria
Mainstream historians say Cumbria was Scottish and never an independent kingdom. This highly influential and damaging myth was created by 14th C…
 • Paul Eastham
“Greetings from your mortal enemy”: new evidence Vikings slaughtered Cumbrians
For centuries, historians dismissed 1,000-year-old manuscript saying Danish Great Heathen Army devastated Carlisle. But analysis of Scandinavian runes…
 • Paul Eastham
Why Celtosceptics deny Cumbria’s history
Doubting academics claim Celts never existed. They say activists "invented" them to portray Britain as oppressor of its minority cultures.
 • Paul Eastham
How humiliated Cumbrians launched silent but beautiful protest against Romans
Outraged by invasion, subjugation and Hadrian’s Wall disruption, Celts wore Dragonesque brooches to signal non-cooperation with military dictatorship
 • Paul Eastham
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