Mary Ann Bevan: The Ugliest Woman in History
Anonymous
May 31, 2022
Mary Ann Bevan may have made a name as the ugliest woman in the world. But in her endeavours she also became an epitome of opportunism and o...
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The Shortest War in History Lasted Less Than An Hour
Anonymous
May 26, 2022
How do you define a war? Should both sides have a fair chance of winning? Is a coup within a protectorate justified as war? Does the conflic...
How Sin Eaters Saved The Dead & The Dying
Anonymous
May 25, 2022
In 18th and 19th century England and Scotland, sin eating was a profession. Beggars, destitute and those in want of a measly morsel of nutri...
Baby Cages: The Strange Practice of ‘Airing’ The Baby
Anonymous
May 24, 2022
It’s true—no one can go to the lengths that our parents cover for us. It’s truer that no one can go to the lengths that parents of the 20th ...
Lyveden New Bield
Kaushik Patowary
May 18, 2022
Lyveden New Bield is an unfinished Elizabethan summer house located in the parish of Aldwincle in North Northamptonshire, England. The Natio...
Can Tapeworms Make You Beautiful?
Anonymous
Apr 23, 2022
“The loveliness of a rival eats into a girl’s heart like corrosion;” says The Ugly-girl Papers: Or, Hints for the Toilet . The Victorian era...
The Hammersmith Ghost Murder Case
Kaushik Patowary
Apr 18, 2022
In the winter of 1803, residents of Hammersmith, which at the time was a small village on the outskirts of London, was terrorized by a ghost...
The Day BBC Had No News
Anonymous
Apr 18, 2022
You could be idle, but the world is still unfolding. Even in hours of boredom within the four walls of our homes, we are aware of the tremen...
The Pacific Island Where Prince Philip is God
Anonymous
Apr 4, 2022
At the other end of the sea from where Queen Elizabeth sits on her throne in England, photos of her husband holding a unique club rest safel...
The Great Conservatory of Chatsworth
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 31, 2022
Before Joseph Paxton built the magnificent edifice of glass and iron, the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, he built an enorm...
Can You Solve The Shugborough Code?
Anonymous
Mar 31, 2022
From the Caesar Shift of ancient times to a Nazi coding device called the Enigma Machine, the world before us left its mark in keys and code...
The Whipping Tom of 1681
Anonymous
Mar 22, 2022
The streets of London have witnessed some of the strangest men come and go over the years. From commoners like Theodore Hook, who halted the...
The Mystery of The Campden Wonder
Anonymous
Mar 21, 2022
The year was 1660. In south west England’s Gloucestershire sat a small town called Chipping Campden—a single street rotting under soot and l...
The Field of Cloth of Gold
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 4, 2022
Situated just ten miles south of Calais, Balinghem is an unremarkable little village, but five hundred years ago this quiet countryside play...
The Turf Mazes of Britain
Kaushik Patowary
Mar 3, 2022
Turf mazes are labyrinths made by cutting a convoluted path in an area of short grass or lawn, and were once a common feature of the English...
The Clink: England’s Oldest Prison
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 22, 2022
The oldest prison in England and the country’s most notorious was owned not by the reigning monarch but the Bishop of Winchester. Now why wo...
Thomas Harriot: The Scientific Genius Who Eschewed Fame
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 21, 2022
Four hundred years ago, on July 2 1621, a remarkable Englishman named Thomas Harriot died in London. He left behind some 8,000 pages of scie...
Ashford v Thornton: The Last Challenge to Trial by Battle
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 18, 2022
Many personal disputes in the past have been settled by one-to-one combat. When a crime was committed, or a complainant accused a person of ...
The Donkey Wheel of Carisbrooke Castle
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 16, 2022
After King Charles I of England surrendered to Scottish forces following his defeat in the English Civil War (1642–1651), he was captured an...
Weighing The Mayor of High Wycombe
Kaushik Patowary
Feb 4, 2022
Every year at the Annual Meeting of the Charter Trustees of the town of High Wycombe, in Buckinghamshire, England, a new mayor is elected. T...
