In the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries a sailor’s life was not a happy one… Quite apart from the fact… READ MORE
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the silkweavers of London’s East End were well known for organizing collectively to defend… READ MORE
“On Monday night, about two o’clock, the debtors in one part of the old jail of Newgate which remains on… READ MORE
For many centuries, until the 1800s, in times of high food prices and thus widespread hunger, popular discontent could often… READ MORE
In March 1771, Lord Mayor of London, Brass Crosby, was jailed in the Tower of London, after sanctioning the arrest… READ MORE
“The said book is a false, malicious, and traitorous libel &c.; That one of the said printed books be burnt… READ MORE
To be honest this one is a bit crap… sometimes otherwise reasonably sound people do something a bit questionable, and… 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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