Winifred Maxwell, the Countess of Nithsdale, achieved an impossible feat when she rescued her husband from the Tower of London the night before his scheduled execution. Check out the full blog post to learn more about this remarkable woman.

Mary Elizabeth Tyler was a woman of enormous capabilities and talent who used her power to do great evil when she catapulted the second KKK into national prominence in the 1920s. Learn more by reading our blog series Four Remarkable Women by Patricia Bernstein.

Two women, Mary White Ovington and Elizabeth Freeman, blazed forth in a dark time like the old statues of saints surrounded by candles in a dark church. Check out this blog post by Patricia Bernstein, author of A Noble Cunning, to learn about these remarkable women.

In Patricia Bernstein’s novel, A Noble Cunning, hot chocolate plays a key role in the heroine’s plot to rescue her husband from the Tower of London. At the time, hot chocolate was quite a novelty in Europe. But where did it come from, and how did it become popular? Find out by reading our blog.

James Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Derwentwater, was 26 years old when he was executed for treason for his role in the 1715 Jacobite Uprising. Centuries later he would be remembered as a martyr and hero in a series of sad English ballads.

Anti-Catholic religious persecution lasted for over 200 years in Britain. But the persecution of thousands of British Catholics could have ended long before it did, if King James II had had his way. In the midst of all the bloody upheavals over religion in Europe, Britain came close to granting all of its citizens religious freedom in 1688, long before tolerance was available in other European nations.