What is perhaps the biggest challenge for social historians is to wrap our heads around the continuum of time: around...
In mid-August of 1859, astronomers were excited by the appearance of a large solar spot on the sun which first...
While there is no doubt in my mind that our earliest female ancestors worked, and worked very hard, their choices for...
Centuries ago, ordinary people lived out their days, going about their daily business, and then ultimately died, all without anyone...
The Staff of Life For labourers in the nineteenth century, bread was indeed the staff of life. For the very...
The summer of 1816 has been called ‘the summer that never was’, ‘the poverty year’ and ‘eighteen hundred and froze...
In July of 1851, Victoria’s first gold rush began and before the end of the year, gold fever had spread across...
Some believe that the Spanish Influenza of 1918 had its beginnings in the Far East, perhaps China, while others have...
Patent medicines are not, as the name would suggest, medicines that have been patented but rather they are commercial products...
One of our ancestor’s greatest fears was the highly contagious smallpox, a disease that has thankfully been considered to be...