The ship Pendragon, an iron vessel of 1278 tons register, was owned by Messrs MacDiarmid, Greenshields, and Co., of Drury-buildings,...
Long before the internet and online ordering, mail order catalogues were one of the only ways that the American rural...
London Emigration Committee Between the years of 1833 and 1837, a total of fourteen ships sponsored by the London Emigration...
On Wednesday evening, 11 April 1877, as the miners were getting ready to leave the Ty Newydd Colliery at the end...
Notorious robber Huffey White, alias Hufton White, alias Huffham White, alias Houghton White, alias William Evans, escaped from the hulks near Woolwich no...
Christmas Eves of my childhood were spent down in my Nana’s basement apartment, curled up on the couch, watching ‘A...
April in 1860 began with a cold snap in Nashville, Tennessee and there were fears that the peach crop would...
In mid-August of 1859, astronomers were excited by the appearance of a large solar spot on the sun which first...
While the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals was founded in the UK in 1824, by 1880, there...
I have recently broken through a brick wall in my genealogical research and have found out what happened to my...