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Last time on History's Nutcases, we talked about the famous Romantic poet, Lord Byron, whose life was characterized by love affairs, strange ...
The Victorian Era was a time of change, of innovation, and of really strange social values. Victorian society had all sorts of quirks, especially the upper clas...
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When most children in the world are thinking of a jolly, round old man with a white beard who's going to come clambering down their chimn...
British history is filled with crooks and criminals. Over the years, any number of people have tried to take control of local populations, inflicting a reign of...
The tradition of Christmas is a tradition of traditions. Every family carries their own. Even though they morph over the years, those traditions are part of wha...
Think history is just a boring list of names and dates? Think again. There's hundreds of amusing stories that they don't tell you in history class. Some of thos...
Living as the Tsar of Russia, at a time when the biggest country on the planet was in a regular debate about a change of government, was not easy. Opponents cal...
Born in 1640, Aphra Behn was one of the first women in England to make a career out of writing. As a playwright, poet, translator, and Restoration era author, s...
As folk lore would have it, life in the Middle Ages was deeply depressing. Unless you were an aristocrat or a royal, you were likely to live as a peasant, in a ...
Isabella I of Castile ruled as Queen of Castile and León from December 11, 1474 until her death on November 26, 1504. Though she struggled to claim the throne f...
