Edith Allonby: The Writer Who Courted Death For Her Novel
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 16, 2025
Getting published has never been easy. Even the most celebrated authors once faced rejection after rejection. J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter w...
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The Great Tea Race of 1866
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 11, 2025
On a grey morning in late May 1866, the waterfront of Fuzhou buzzed with anticipation. Along the Min River, some of the fastest ships ever b...
The Invincible Bramah Lock
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 12, 2025
It is 1790, and you find yourself at 124 Piccadilly, London. As you stroll past the rows of shops, one window in particular catches your eye...
Robert Coates: The Greatest Bad Actor
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 30, 2025
In the glittering world of 19th-century theatre, where talent was prized and ridicule could end a career, one man defied convention and beca...
James Lind And The First Clinical Trial
Kaushik Patowary
May 12, 2025
In the mid-18th century, the British Royal Navy was the most powerful maritime force in the world, but its dominance came at a high cost. Am...
Harold Gillies: The Father of Plastic Surgery
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 9, 2025
This is Walter Yeo, an English sailor who was injured while manning the guns aboard the battleship HMS Warspite during the Battle of Jutla...
Hating Henry Symeonis: An Oxford University Tradition
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 21, 2025
The University of Oxford—one of the oldest continuously operating universities in the world—has a wealth of traditions, which is unsurprisin...
James Tilly Matthews And The Air Loom
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2025
James Tilly Matthews was delusional. He believed that secret gangs of people were operating across London, using a bizarre machine called th...
Richard of Pudlicott’s Audacious Heist of The King’s Treasury
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 14, 2025
In April 1303, one of the most daring burglaries in English history took place within the walls of Westminster Abbey. Thieves broke into the...
The Raising of Mary Rose
Kaushik Patowary
Jan 27, 2025
The Mary Rose was a large warship in the Tudor Navy of King Henry VIII. She was the second most powerful ship in King Henry VIII’s fleet an...
