What is perhaps the biggest challenge for social historians is to wrap our heads around the continuum of time: around... Read More
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Having recently discovered the secret to mind-travelling back through time, I’ve journeyed to Sheffield to have an imaginary conversation with my great-great-grandfather.... Read More
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Julia McEvers Julia McEvers was the youngest child of Mary Frances Bourke and John Francis McEvers, a Doctor of Medicine of... Read More
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Journey back only a short time in history, when esteemed judges and assembled juries had only the testimony of witnesses... Read More
This month, Facebook began prompting users in fourteen countries to read a guide on the fake news phenomenon, with a list... Read More
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William Spratt, alias Constable, alias Spratty Watts, died on 11 June 1848 after being ill for some days. His half-sister,... Read More
Crowds flocked to Sunnyside Beach in 1922 when the new park opened, lured by the modern new bathing pavilion and the... Read More
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The ship Pendragon, an iron vessel of 1278 tons register, was owned by Messrs MacDiarmid, Greenshields, and Co., of Drury-buildings,... Read More
Long before the internet and online ordering, mail order catalogues were one of the only ways that the American rural... Read More
London Emigration Committee Between the years of 1833 and 1837, a total of fourteen ships sponsored by the London Emigration... Read More