Ask the Expert

This section is for pupils' questions. The idea is to establish an e-mail correspondence on any matters of historical interest to the pupils.

If you have any questions or comments regarding any aspect of history, I will be delighted to hear from you and will publish the questions you send along with my answers on this page.

To contact me with a question, just click here.

Below are a few questions that I have already received - just click on the question to read my answer - and keep those questions coming in!

Who came in-between the Stuarts and the Victorians?

Why did the Tudors come to an end?

Why did they choose poppies to be used as the symbol for Remembrance Day?

What would have been the consequences of the Spanish Armada landing successfully and what would have been its effect on our lives today?

Do you think that Wales would have prospered better in the long term had the Spanish Armada been successful? ?

Who was Nimrod?

Is there any evidence of the Romans in the St. Thomas area of Swansea?

What are the original words of the Hippocratic Oath?

Where in Greece was the first Asceplion founded?

How many miners were involved in the Tonypandy Riots?

King Henry I's grave at Reading is covered by what?

Where and when was Lawrence of Arabia born?

Where and when was the first Roman hospital founded in Britain?

How many Jews survived the Holocaust?

What ancient remedies are still in use today?

Who drew up the Treaty of Versailles?

How many Bantustans were set up by the South African government and what were they called?

What was the ratio of white to black people in South Africa in 1960?