The Black Death was a global pandemic that struck in the middle of the 14th-century and killed maybe a third of the world’s population. Today
Category: Old History
Horror on the high seas
Two centuries ago, a tale of absolute horror emerged from the transatlantic slave trade. The French ship Le Rȏdeur (‘The Prowler’) was a 200-ton cargo
1519: A tale of two guns
In 1519, in the far East, the Chinese warlord and Confucian philosopher Wang Yangming (1472-1529) was spending a considerable amount of time dealing with uppity
The forgotten nurse of the Crimean War
By Alan Brown Martha Clough served as a ‘lady volunteer’ nurse in the Crimean War. Her date of birth is unknown, but she died after
King Cnut the Great
Cnut se Micela, King of England and many embarrassing but quite funny typing errors, became King of Denmark in 1018 following the death of
