How Vikings honoured their dead
Elite Viking funerals were like giant theatrical performances, according to new researches. Piecing together evidence from Viking art, mythology and...
15/06/2011
CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY
A Legal Looting in Medieval England
In 1547, Thomas Michell murdered Eleanor and John Sydnam and then killed himself. Knowing Michell to be “a man of...
04/06/2011
Post-war society: Social life in 1950’s
What are you thinking when you see a pictures of your parents or grandparents back in 50’s? Old black and...
03/06/2011
The Age of Enlightenment – The new way of thinking in the 18th century
Scientific Discoveries The spectacular theoretical achievements capped by Newton in the seventeenth century were not repeated in the eighteenth. However,...
31/05/2011
The Blackface Minstrels
The practice of actors “blacking up” is no longer seen as amusing or acceptable. The once highly popular television series...
29/05/2011
19th Century sport in Scotland
Communal games involving men and older boys ranged up and down the streets of many towns and can still be...
24/05/2011
When Hollywood destroyed New York
In 1953, the heat generated by an atomic bomb test near the North Pole releases a dinosaur from its Arctic...
22/05/2011
The Bogomils
The Bogomils were members of a religious sect that at its peak held enormous influence over the Balkan countries between...
19/05/2011
Technology in Europe: 15th and 16th Century
Technological development in the 15th and 16th centuries were generally limited to improvements on medieval innovations. The voyages of discovery...
18/05/2011