The Wicked Bible
Kaushik Patowary
Oct 12, 2022
A scandalous printing mistake in a 17th century King James Bible caused it’s printers to lose their license, and a vast majority of the bibl...
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The Family That Sold Time
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 22, 2022
Mechanical clocks of the 19th century and earlier were not very accurate timekeepers and tended to drift over the course of a single day. Af...
The Bradford Sweets Poisoning of 1858
Kaushik Patowary
Sep 7, 2022
William Hardaker ran a sweet shop in Green Market in Bradford, England. His most popular confectionary was the humbug, a hard boiled sweet m...
London to Calcutta by Bus
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 30, 2022
For fifteen years from the late 1950s to the early 1970s, it was possible to hop on to a bus in London and travel all the way to Calcutta, I...
Hannah Beswick: The Manchester Mummy
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 26, 2022
Hannah Beswick had a morbid fear of being buried alive, and this dread was not entirely irrational. Her young brother John almost had his co...
Drowning in Sewage: The Sinking of Princess Alice
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 10, 2022
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 Man Who Bought Stonehenge And Gave it Away
Kaushik Patowary
Aug 2, 2022
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...
Princess Caraboo: The Imposter That Fooled a Nation
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 19, 2022
On 3 April 1817, a mysterious woman in her mid-twenties walked into the small English village of Almondsbury in Gloucestershire. She was dre...
Grace Darling's Daring Rescue of Shipwreck Survivors
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 18, 2022
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: The Pub That Was Reborn From Rubble
Kaushik Patowary
Jul 2, 2022
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 ...
Coal Gas Vehicles
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 20, 2022
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...
The Book That Became Famous Before it Was Published
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 13, 2022
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: 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...
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...
