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| "The Witches' Cove," Follower of Jan Mandijn |
Watch out for those haunted wells!
A science fiction story that was a bit too accurate.
Songs of the Titanic.
A look at Britain's black past.
The first woman to fly across the English Channel.
The biggest star explosion ever observed. By us, at least.
A Victorian photojournalist.
The burying ground of London's Quakers.
Napoleon on family life.
The dog who nabbed Osama.
Henry VIII owned a lot of stuff.
Monks as relic thieves.
A brief history of shell grottos.
50,000 year old string.
Arthur Munby's unconventional love life. [Ed. note: "Unconventional" may be an understatement.]
It's looking like London is a hell of a lot older than we thought.
The link between an executed 14th century friar and evolutionary biology.
Life in a Viking mountain pass.
Take a virtual tour of ancient Egypt.
The dogs of the Titanic.
What may be the oldest known archaic human fossil.
Someone is forced to quarantine in a frightening, eerie place. No, no, I'm not talking about Strange Company HQ.
London's 1863 social season.
The house that has become a radio station.
Men's grooming tips from the 19th century.
China's hanging coffins.
The first hiking trail.
The family troubles of Gerolamo Cardano.
Cholera in 1892 Hamburg.
Snail water, good for anything that ails you.
How copper kills viruses.
Victorian vote fraud.
The Constantinople Massacre.
Believe it or not, but Lord Byron was one of the more normal members of his family.
George Harrison, Illinois tourist.
Well, this is probably not good. Like pretty much all of this godforsaken year.
The Affair of the Poisons, one of royalty's weirder scandals.
Regency sea bathing.
The case of the fake Aretha.
How rabbits and chickens became associated with Easter.
The Bronze Age had a thing for ostrich eggs.
Ernest Hemingway turned quarantine into a French farce.
Influenza diaries.
The disappearance at sea of Theodosia Burr. (I wrote about this sad case here.)
Disease and the modern American bathroom.
One of those murders that probably ranks as "technically unsolved."
A Shakespearean fishmonger.
The dark side of P.T. Barnum.
Poetry in the King's Bench.
The weird death of an 18th century friar.
A murder by Roman soldiers.
Alma Mahler, muse.
A horrible and mysterious murder.
Victorian spring entertainment playbills.
That's all for this week! Tune in on Monday, when we'll look at a man's bizarre return from the dead. In the meantime, here's the Trio.
That's very interesting about London being inhabited three thousand years earlier than previously thought - though it may be that there was a great gap between then and Roman London, so that the Roman city was founded where none had been for a while.
ReplyDeleteAnd the link to the 'Constantinople Massacre' made me think, "She should narrow that down a bit..."