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...
The former Soviet Republic is practically another world. Spanning from Russia into the stretches of Eastern Europe and beyond, the Soviet Republic had a huge in...
Speak the word “Salem” out loud and chances are that most people will understand what it is you’re talking about. Home to some of the most notorious witch trial...
Go back a couple hundred years and you will find a health service that is worlds away from what we have today. Once upon a time, hospitals and care wards were a...
The lost Roanoke colony is perhaps one of the biggest mysteries that still troubles modern day America. The first English colony to arrive on American soil, the...
Over the course of history, cities rise and cities fall but from time to time, we lose sight of what actually happened. When a civilization disappears without a...
