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Medical historians have in fact attributed the invention of the ‘beak doctor’ costume to a French doctor named Charles de Lorme in 1619. He designed the bird mask to be worn with a large waxen coat as a form of head-to-toe protection, modelled on a soldier’s armour. The costume was worn by plague doctors during the Plague of 1656, which ...
The plague returned to London with a vengeance in 1665. The first cases occurred in the parish of St Giles-in-the-Fields, outside the city walls, in the early spring. The death rate rose swiftly and the infection spread so rapidly that in April King Charles II prorogued parliament so that the lords and the MPs could flee the city.
Was King Arthur just a myth? There is no historical evidence that King Arthur existed. Historical records from the Dark Ages are almost non-existent, therefore little is known about 5 th and 6 th Century Britain – the time King Arthur supposedly established the Knights of the Round Table, defeated the Saxons, and built an empire. The first ...
The “plague cottages” of Eyam from a colour Photochrom print, circa 1900. Reaching its peak in the heat of July and August, the plague raged through Eyam with August alone seeing an alleged 78 deaths. Whole families were lost, including the Thorpes of whom all nine died, and burying loved ones became a daily occurrence.
For that noble prince Arthur, the king’s first begotten son, after he had been married to the Lady Catherine for five months, departed this transitory life at Ludlow on 2 April 1502. And in one paragraph, the fate of England is changed and a second son is put on course for the crown. He will reign as Henry VIII – one of the most colourful ...
1. Ninja dressed in black. The archetypal ninja is often portrayed as dressing entirely in black with a hood and mask, but this simply doesn’t make sense. A ninja’s job was to blend in with everyone else, which is impossible in such a costume – unless you’re at a football referee convention or a gothic music gig…
She was aged just 23. This martyr to freedom was one of the bravest women in our history and one of the most decorated, only the second female recipient of the George Cross for bravery, and also the Croix de Guerre and La Medaille de la Resistance. She was a member of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) and her name was Violette Szabo.
Another unlikely tale born out of Duvalier’s mystique is that upon hearing of US President John F Kennedy’s death in 1963, rather than offer his condolences, Duvalier took credit – if that’s the right word – for the murder. It was rumoured that on the morning of the assassination, the Haitian president had stabbed his JFK “Voodoo ...
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Described by the travel writer Rebecca West as “a flabby young man with pince-nez who had a taste for clumsy experiments in absolutism”, Alexander Obrenović was brought to power by a coup and lost it in another one over his unpopular wife, Draga. The couple were just two of the many victims of Serbia’s cottage industry in regicide.