In the early days of World War 2, after the German Luftwaffe’s attack on Britain’s air defences failed, the planes… READ MORE
“Charles More , of St. Martins in the Fields , was Indicted for Feloniously Stealing Divers Books to a Considerable Value… READ MORE
“Among the many crazy sectaries produced from the yeasty froth of the fermenting caldron of the great civil war, there… READ MORE
An account of a naked protest in Selfridges store, Central London, 2003. “Steve Gough has been walking naked from land’s… READ MORE
Anti-semitism and widespread persecution of Jewish communities is almost as old as Christianity. While the twentieth century witnessed its most… READ MORE
For centuries, from the early 1600s to the 1860s, England transported hundreds of thousands of convicts, political prisoners as well… READ MORE
“Whereas John Shepheard broke out of the Condemn’d Hold of Newgate (with his Irons on) by cutting off one of… READ MORE
It’s generally well-known that during World War I, thousands of jobs normally done by men were taken over by women,… READ MORE
Newgate Prison, for 100s of years the most potent symbol of state repression in London, hated and feared by the… READ MORE
"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
~ Rogers Hornsby
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