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Category: Old History

Peasants’ Revolt 2.0

July 16, 2020 Dr Alan Brown

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

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Horror on the high seas

April 6, 2019 Dr Alan Brown

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

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1519: A tale of two guns

December 2, 2018 Dr Alan Brown

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

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The forgotten nurse of the Crimean War

December 1, 2018 Dr Alan Brown

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

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'Canute Reproving His Courtiers' - 1848 engraving

King Cnut the Great

December 1, 2018 Dr Alan Brown

  Cnut se Micela, King of England and many embarrassing but quite funny typing errors, became King of Denmark in 1018 following the death of

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