The image of the cowboy is one that has been associated with American history for years. With the golden age rearing its head in 1866, the reign of the cowboy w...
Film sets have a habit of being dangerous. Ever since the birth of cinema more than 100 years ago, there has been no end to the amount of accidents that have ta...
As well as becoming one of the most celebrated American horror writers after his death, H. P. Lovecraft managed to achieve the impossible, carving out his very ...
Illusionists and magicians have been boggling the minds of pundits for hundreds of years. Throughout history, our fascination with magic has rarely wavered and ...
History has served up a whole range of grisly events. From war to sacrifice, ancient tales of times gone by have shown us some of the darkest sides of the human...
Science in the time of the Victorians was very strange indeed. Still in its infancy, the practice was very much experimental during the period, leading to a who...
Detectives as we know them today are a relatively modern phenomenon. Crime solving was once a much less accurate affair, cobbled together by mishandled evidence...
William Shakespeare is one of the most celebrated writers in history. Despite having died long ago, the writer and wordsmith is still studied as if he were stil...
World War II was one of the most devastating events of the 20th century. Affecting almost every part of the world, the war changed the lives of those who were i...
The majority of famous people go down in history for something they’ve done or something that happened to them. Often, however, what we think we know about a hi...