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"In An Hour, She Was Unconscious. In 12 Hours She Was Dead". Roald Dahl's Warning After Losing His Daughter to Measles
We've all encountered the name Roald Dahl at some point in our lives, whether it was whilst reading classics such as The BFG, The...
The Story of Paula Hitler: Unraveling the Life of Adolf Hitler's Sister
Paula Hitler (otherwise known as Paula Wolff and Paula Hitler-Wolff) was born on January 21, 1896, in the quaint village of Hafeld,...
After Slavery In America: Loved Ones Found In Wanted Ads
The Aftermath of Emancipation The abolition of slavery in the United States, formalised by the 13th Amendment in 1865, marked a pivotal...
Recoil In Horror At The Story Of The Man Who Cut Out His Own Appendix
Leonid Rogozov lying down talking to his friend Yuri Vereschagin at Novolazarevskaya Most people get squeamish just thinking about an...
Lucille Bogan's Shave 'Em Dry - The Song From 1935 that's So Filthy It Comes With A Parental Warning
Each new batch of youngsters believes the old fogies before them were all boring squares, imagining a world before the 1960s where...
Say Hello to “White Death” Simo Häyhä The Deadliest Sniper In History
Simo Häyhä, after the war. His face was scarred by his wartime injury. Simo Häyhä, also known as “The White Death,” stands as one of the...
The Ace with the Bass: Phil Lynott’s Life of Swagger, Soul and Sadness
It’s the mid-1980s, and Phil Lynott is deep in a Soho recording studio, working on his second solo album. The room, as usual, is full to...
George Harrison Said He Wanted To See 'Life of Brian' - So He Handed Us The Money
From the Michael Palin interview with Cahal Milmo in 2001 George Harrison was the man who saved Life of Brian for the simplest of...
When Muddy Waters and Sister Rosetta Tharpe's Played a Train Station in Manchester, England in 1964
On a damp evening of May 7th, 1964, a crowd of super excited music lovers gathered on a rain-soaked disused railway station platform in...
'In The Event Of Moon Disaster' The Speech Nixon Prepared If The Moon Landing Failed
Voyaging through the cosmic expanse carries inherent hazards, with myriad challenges capable of imperilling the mission from launch to...
CBGB and The Ramones: Where Punk Found Its Pulse
Picture this: it’s the sweltering summer of 1974 in New York City. Graffiti bleeds across the brickwork, the Bowery still reeks of...
T.E Lawrence, Was He Just 'The Dynamite Guy'?
When the Imperial Camel Corps thundered into the dusty port town of Aqaba in the summer of 1918, they rode not only into a...
The ‘Pit Brow Lasses’ Of 19th-Century Coal Mines
In the depths of the 19th century, amidst the coal fields of Lancashire, a remarkable group of women emerged, challenging the societal...
The Day Andy Warhol Was Shot By 'The Society for Cutting Up Men' (SCUM)
When Valerie Solanas entered Andy Warhol's sixth-floor office at 33 Union Square West on June 3, 1968, armed with two guns and consumed...
The Cannibalism of 1672: What Led to the Dutch Mob Butchering and Eating Their Prime Minister?
Once a prominent figure but now largely overlooked, Johan de Witt held a pivotal role in Dutch politics. Elevated to the position of...
The Final Days of Van Gogh in Auvers
In the evening of July 27, 1890, Vincent van Gogh returned to his small room at the Auberge Ravoux in Auvers-sur-Oise, located north of...
When an 11-year-old boy led Hiram Bingham to Machu Picchu in 1911
High in the rugged folds of the Peruvian Andes lies one of the world’s most recognisable archaeological sites: Machu Picchu. Often draped...
The Final Day Of The Romanov Family
When Tsar Nicholas II was forced to abdicate in March 1917, it marked not only the end of the Romanov dynasty but the close of centuries...
Why Welsh Archers Were The Most Feared In Europe
When north Wales exploded into open revolt against an exploitative English elite. Countless towns were laid waste, their populations...
Catherine The Great And Her Pornographic Furniture
Once upon a time, there was a lady named Catherine II, who ruled over Russia with sass and scandal for a whopping three decades....
Pop Sonnets - Old Twists On New Songs
The wonderful people over at Pop Sonnets have spent so much time putting a old spin on modern songs. They're absolutely wonderful.
The Good Maharaja: How a Princely State in India Became a Refuge for Polish Children During the Second World War
When Feliks Scazighino was just six years old, the world as he knew it collapsed. Along with millions of other Polish civilians in 1940,...
Four Irrational Behaviours Voltaire Warned Us About
François-Marie Arouet, celebrated under his nom de plume Voltaire, stands as a preeminent figure of the Age of Enlightenment, an era...
The USS Indianapolis Monologue: Unravelling the Origins of Quint’s Chilling Speech in Jaws
One of the key and most chilling moments in the film Jaws comes when Shaw's character Quint delivers a harrowing four-minute monologue...
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