Henry Moston of Didsbury near Manchester has proved his teachers right by invading Poland. And it's not the first time he has done something like this. "He were told at school," said long suffering wife, Janice Moston, "that those who don't know h...
Despite his meteoric rise to power, his total control of the Senate, Tribunes and the Praetorian Guard and also the vice-like grip he held over the city for over fifteen years, it emerged today that not one single person in Rome had had much to do wi...
Subtitle: A History of a Land, its Regions and their Peoples Ever since the Risorgimento, there has been debate about whether the unification of Italy of 1860-61 was a 'a good thing.' David Gilmour argues that it was not. Ken Lucid assesses his case: Back in my student days I shared a house with six others - there were four of us guys and three girls. We were a pretty mixed bunch, and al...
A recent copy of Ye Olde TV Timef was found in a box in an attic in Basingstoke, and it revealed that the TV Line-ups were not all that different to today's television. The only difference is that Freeview had not been invented back then (and Sky just showed clouds). There was only a small number of channels. Difficult to believe, but there was no cBeebies to take the place of a baby sitter. BB...
This article was sent in by an old twerp who used to work in the food retail industry, to the 'Oil Drum Lane Gazette, in Nottingham. "Eeeeh! The price of things nowadays! Why, I can remember when ten shillings would buy you four pints of bitter, a fish supper and you would still have change for tram ticket home." How often have we heard this sort of thing from some people usually a bit older th...
A major project funded by unknown benefactors is to rewrite history. Instead of the usual H I S T O R Y we shall have Y R O T S I H - the complete reversal of all assumptions about the past. 'We shall be turning history on its head' said Prof Bob...
Scientists at the University of Michigan have discovered a magnetic property of light that could be used to generate solar power, possibly opening up new fields of cheaper and more efficient energy sources. Let's look at some other famous discoveries over the years. 175,000 B.C.: Correlation between having oxygen and not dying established. 1492: Christopher Columbus discovers America. And b...
I am a very successful person in my own right, to the extent that I gave birth to myself back in 1974, in the back of Fiat, I wasn't driving at the time. My Grand father was born in a one bed roomed tenement, his mother had 54 children by the time she was twenty-seven. Fifty eight of her children went on to be millionaires. The rest joined the church. Times ware hard they were starving most of...
Otto von Bismarck, (April 1, 1815 - July 30, 1898) the creator of modern Germany, 'ruler of the Kaiser'... This towering figure in the history of modern Europe has hardly been over-examined in English - the last biography was nearly 30 years ago. Ken Lucid considers this latest appraisal... Prince Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck - the Iron Chancellor, three wars, the unification of Germany,...
Experts warn that the education system is failing our children by squeezing history out of the curriculum. England is the only country in Europe where the subject is not compulsory to the age of 15 or 16. Some kids are allowed to stop studying it...
The history of writing the spoken word is a scientific discipline all to itself. It is widely agreed that the Egyptians and Chinese writing systems arose together through trade, and gave rise to two independent systems. The Phoenicians carried Egypti...
There's been a lot of debate recently over the role social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter played in the recent Egyptian uprising, however very little has been mentioned of their importance in history's other great revolutions. In this report, we chronicle the significant contributions social media sites have played in helping to foment past rebellions throughout the world. But bef...
The protests in Egypt have created a great deal of international attention, and almost certainly will result in the ousting of President Mubarak. Let's take a look at some other famous revolutions in history. Circa 10,000 B.C.: The Agricultural Revolution introduces the domestication of plants and animals, paving the groundwork for human civilization. Viewed in a negative light by most non-huma...
Out of plain, unguided, vague interest, Dense Inchcock, our ancient, decrepit Spoof Gazette Columis... Clomuni... Colamist... Writer, has been out with his notebook, 1959 Menu from Fred's Cafe, of Grotty End Road Nottingham, pen, and 20p expenses - to check the difference in similar items on the menu, to todays prices. For ease of comparing, the 1959 prices have been converted to the biggest c...
I jumped the gun a bit in the last chapter. I should of mentioned what happened to me in the 1950s when I was 15yrs old. It was a tempestuous time. I was in Washington in 1951 doing a bit of shopping when I bumped into this bloke at the bus stop. He looked a bit tired so I asked him what was wrong. He said he had been up all night thinking about the Japanese. I told him it was about time someon...
New evidence emerged yesterday proving that the writer Oscar Wilde was not gay as was previously thought. A diary belonging to one of Wilde's associates - The Marquis of Tewkesbury, shows an entry for the summer of 1898 when the Marquis and his co...
Describe the events leading up to the start of WW2 Try to include names and dates. Once, there was this bloke named Nazi, and he had some friends called Hitler and Adolf and thier gang was called German. One day, they had an argument with a gang called the Poland. The Poland people did not want to be mates with Nazi and his friends, so, Hitler and Adolf beat them up. But, the Polands had s...
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