Edgar Wallace's Marketing Folly
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 23, 2026
In 1905, a little-known journalist named Edgar Wallace was determined to make his first novel impossible to ignore. The book was The Four Ju...
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The Lost Battalion of Celtic Wood
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 17, 2026
On 9 October 1917, during the Third Battle of Ypres, a battalion of Australian soldiers entered a place known as Celtic Wood, near Passchend...
Mynydd Epynt: A Welsh Village That Was Sacrificed for The War Effort
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 15, 2026
The windswept plateau in central Wales, near the village of Sennybridge in Powys, was once home to a thriving Welsh-speaking farming society...
Éolienne Bollée: An Unusual Windmill
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 10, 2026
The design and working principle of a windmill or a wind powered machine haven’t changed much since they first appeared in Persia some 1,20...
The Double Life of William Brodie
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 8, 2026
In the late 18th century, no man in Edinburgh seemed more respectable than William Brodie. By day, he was a successful cabinetmaker, a membe...
Gjøa: The Little Ship That Conquered the Arctic
Kaushik Patowary
Jun 1, 2026
On October 19, 1906, a modest 70-foot sailing vessel slipped into San Francisco Bay. Compared with the large steamships and ocean-going vess...
Breadalbane: The Shipwreck at The Top of The World
Kaushik Patowary
May 27, 2026
In the frigid waters of the Canadian Arctic, nearly 100 meters beneath the surface, lies a ship seemingly untouched by time. Despite the pas...
Christopher Hutton's Clever Inventions That Helped Allied PoW Escape
Kaushik Patowary
May 25, 2026
When Britain entered the Second World War in September 1939, military planners understood that thousands of Allied servicemen would inevitab...
The Impeccable Counterfeits of Ceslaw Bojarski
Kaushik Patowary
May 19, 2026
On November 9, 1963, two investigators from France’s Central Office for Counterfeit Currency Control (OCRFM) arrived at the post office on R...
Edinburgh Seven And The Surgeons' Hall Riot
Kaushik Patowary
May 14, 2026
On 18 November 1870, a crowd gathered outside the Surgeons’ Hall in Edinburgh. Inside, seven young women sat for an anatomy examination alon...
