Drowning in Sewage: The Sinking of Princess Alice
The sinking of SS Princes Alice , a British paddle steamer, on the River Thames on 3 September 1878, that resulted in the loss of more than ...
The sinking of SS Princes Alice , a British paddle steamer, on the River Thames on 3 September 1878, that resulted in the loss of more than ...
On 21 September 1915, a barrister named Cecil Chubb was sent to an auction by his wife to buy some curtains. According to some accounts, she...
On 3 April 1817, a mysterious woman in her mid-twenties walked into the small English village of Almondsbury in Gloucestershire. She was dre...
In 1838, a young woman pulled off a heroic rescue saving several survivors from a wrecked merchant ship off the coast of Northumberland in n...
Carlton Tavern in Kilburn, London, was the heart of the community for nearly a hundred years until it ceased to exist one spring morning in ...
Contrary to popular belief, vehicles run with natural gas was very common in the early 1900s in America and parts of Europe. However, this g...
Fly Fishing: Memories of Angling Days is one of those books where the story behind is more interesting than the book itself. It’s not tha...
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...
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...
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...
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 is an unfinished Elizabethan summer house located in the parish of Aldwincle in North Northamptonshire, England. The Natio...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
Before Joseph Paxton built the magnificent edifice of glass and iron, the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851, he built an enorm...
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 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 year was 1660. In south west England’s Gloucestershire sat a small town called Chipping Campden—a single street rotting under soot and l...