The Thirty Years War was a horrific series of conflicts but it has always seemed remote to the inhabitants of these islands - the last major survey in English was by CV Wedgwood 70 years ago. Ken Lucid considers this important new contribution… "First, I have to say sorry this review is late (published late last year - ed.)… but wow! This is one BIG book! It's got 851 pages - and that's not...
Archaeologists in France have discovered what they believe to be the oldest porn in existence. The pornography is depicted in a series of graphic paintings in a remote cave the archaeologists have named Le Grande Gash. British scientist and fl...
How things change eh? This list was complied by Inchcock Chambers, our decrepit unpaid reporter for you perusal and enjoyment. Here are some quotes from people in during the 1950's. (1) "I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, its' going to be impossible to buy a weeks groceries for £10." (2) "Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long when £...
Researchers have discovered stone tools in Norfolk, UK, that suggest that early humans arrived in Britain nearly a million years ago - or even earlier. Ever since then, knife crime has been on the increase. In 2000BC alone there were a dozen...
A historian has revealed evidence that the Beatles never wrote their songs but stole them from the famous William Shakespeare. The historian has discovered that the famous "Cavern club" in Liverpool has been in existence since the Romans invaded but in the sixteen hundreds it was a notorious coffee shop and a haunt of the poets and playwright of the day this has continued to the present day.
Palaeontologists in France have discovered two mammal hairs encased in 100 million-year-old amber. The hairs, found alongside a fly pupa in amber uncovered in southwest France, are similar to hair found on modern-day mammals, and it's thought that...
Neanderthal News Network, Louisburg, Nova Scotia. Leif Erickson's buddies, and other Viking types, were in the new world long before Columbus. Now Archeologists have unearthed startling evidence that Neanderthals sailed the Atlantic thirty thousa...
The ancestor of all Israelite people is said to be Abraham. Originally his name was Abram, meaning high father. According to Genesis 17, God unilaterally decided to alter Abram's name to Abraham, meaning father of all nations! Anyway, one day Abraham left his hometown to settle in present-day Turkey. Later he decided to move back to Palestine to build an altar, of course, at the insistence...
The body of a soldier killed at Culloden, has been found at the sight of the massacre carried out by the butcher Duke of Cumberland, against the Highlanders. Although there was nothing left but bones around the skeletons neck was a name tag Camero...
A group of men attempting to recreate the epic 7,000 km (4,350 mile) voyage of Captain William Bligh have had an embarrassing setback, one of their crew has mutinied! The would be mutineer, 18-year-old Brit Christopher 'Ginger' Wilde, disappeared...
Both Labour and the Conservatives today wheeled out a host of historical figures to back their election campaigns and warn about the dangers of a Liberal Democrat win. In an open letter to the Guardian, some of the top figures from the school hist...
Archeology in Pompeii never ceases to amaze and delight. The Pompeii dig is huge and vast portions of it have yet to be plotted, dug, and researched. In an untapped area archeologists have now discovered what is likely Italy's first pizza parl...
A modest proposal - to not only teach Americans the history of the English language, but to also teach Americans how to spell its words correctly rather than dropping letters out of words to save space, and misspelling words like primary school children do. There is nothing troublesome about users of the English language spelling it correctly, and if American children are taught to misspell the...
A team of Archaeologists working on a dig on a remote Caribbean island which has remained uninhabited for decades has made the astounding discovery that the pirates who sailed the Spanish main, robbing, raping and pillaging in the 18th Century, exist...
Rome, Italy. In mind-blowingly staggering news, a person has been freed from the lava covered ruins of Pompeii, after the volcanic eruption of nearby Mt Vesuvius in AD 79. The gentleman, still breathing and conscious, was half smiling and praisin...
'Nell carefully swept the floor of her grandfather's curiosity shop in West London with a broom, West London with a broom being the unfashionable part of that city, and sighed to herself. For she was only 14 but always curious about things and wanted to know why the British had put so much effort into defeating Napoleon Bonaparte, and why Tottenham Hotspur would never really achieve anything no...
Potsdam - (Rotters): The ossified remains of a British royal family 'queen' have been found in the Heinrich Himmler Halleluia Tabernacle in Adolfville. The skeletal mummy is believed to be the Queen Mother's anorexic twin Oswald whose gay antics s...
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