by Bob | Jun 15, 2023 | Hidden History
A single event can have strange historical ripples. In 1702 a yellow fever epidemic wiped out 10% of the population in less than three months. This was five hundred people out of a population of five thousand.
The city attempted to deal with recurrent outbreaks by...
by Bob | Jun 14, 2023 | Hidden History
The streets of Southern Manhattan, including areas like the Financial District and the Village, are seen as disorganized or chaotic compared to the rest of Manhattan due to the way the city was developed historically. Most of Manhattan is in a grid that easily...
by Bob | Jun 13, 2023 | Books, Movies and TV shows
That Dark and Bloody River by Allan W. Eckert is a historical novel that tells the story of the American frontier in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. The book is set in the Ohio River Valley, which was a hotbed of conflict between Native Americans and white...
by Bob | Jun 11, 2023 | Books, Movies and TV shows
The three books of the Liz Danger series which we’ve been teasing people about for a long time now are finally available for pre-order. Not only that, but they will be out fast! Like really fast. Like Lavender’s Blue on 25 July. And four weeks later, Rest...
by Bob | Jun 10, 2023 | Books, Movies and TV shows
Happy Valley is a British crime drama series created by Sally Wainwright and starring Sarah Lancashire as Catherine Cawood, a police sergeant in the West Yorkshire community of Calder Valley. The series follows Cawood as she investigates a series of crimes. I’ve...
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