What is perhaps the biggest challenge for social historians is to wrap our heads around the continuum of time: around... Read More
In mid-August of 1859, astronomers were excited by the appearance of a large solar spot on the sun which first... Read More
While there is no doubt in my mind that our earliest female ancestors worked, and worked very hard, their choices for... Read More
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Centuries ago, ordinary people lived out their days, going about their daily business, and then ultimately died, all without anyone... Read More
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The Staff of Life For labourers in the nineteenth century, bread was indeed the staff of life. For the very... Read More
The summer of 1816 has been called ‘the summer that never was’, ‘the poverty year’ and ‘eighteen hundred and froze... Read More
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In July of 1851, Victoria’s first gold rush began and before the end of the year, gold fever had spread across... Read More
Some believe that the Spanish Influenza of 1918 had its beginnings in the Far East, perhaps China, while others have... Read More
Thomas Thistlewood inherited £200 sterling on the death of his father Robert in 1727 when he was but six years... Read More
Patent medicines are not, as the name would suggest, medicines that have been patented but rather they are commercial products... Read More