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• The Pendle Witches (Part One)
• Back January 19th.
• Update: Premium Blog Content.
• The Miser of Marcham Park
• Xenophon in Mesopotamia: Part One
• A ’Time Machine’
• The Campden Wonder – The strange ‘murder’ of William Harrison
• The Strange Life, and Death of William Desmond Taylor
• Update: Sisyphus pushes them rocks…
• What goes up…. The Ballad of Franz Reichelt
• Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?
• Spring Heeled Jack: The Terror of London
• ’Fatty’ Arbuckle
• Update: Under Construction…
• Premium Content: The Hammersmith Ghost
• Spencer Perceval
• The Max Headroom Incident
• Olive Thomas – the poisoned chalice
• The Enfundu
• Willie the Wimp (and his Cadillac coffin)
• Update: Moving Pictures…
• Prelude: Scandals of Hollywood’s Silent Era
• Premium Content: Owney Madden
• Mussolini’s Hat, and the Rise of the Mob
• Update: This Lime Tree Bower My Prison…
• Premium Content: Otzi
• Giovanni Batista Belzoni – Tomb Raider
• The ‘New Atlantis’?
• Update: The Dreaded Lurgy…
• Premium Content: Puyi
• Ungern’s Army
• Update: Back July 28th
• eden ahbez – Nature Boy (revisited).
• Nellie Bly: 10 Days in a Madhouse
• Update: Downtime….
• The Sin-Eater
• Lord Lucan
• August You Choose Topic: The ‘Real Indiana Jones’
• The Bottle Conjuror
• Jack Parsons – Babalon’s Rocketeer (Part Two)
• Supplementary Info: Jack Parsons – Two Speeches
• Jack Parsons – Babalon’s Rocketeer (Part One)
• Update: My upcoming ‘Today in History’ project
• Jack Parsons – a prelude
• Moving the Update Page
• Grace O’Malley, the Pirate Queen
• The Bagradas Dragon
• Mithridates – The Poison King of Pontus
• Mithridates – A Prelude
• Buried Alive!

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Older Posts

The Batavia Series: The Wreck, The Heretic, The Voyage to the Cape, The Turn of the Screw, The Massacre, Water, Water Everywhere…, Wiebbe Hayes

Podcasted:
Martial Bourdin: Blog, Podcast, YouTube
Hannibal in Bithynia: Blog, Podcast, YouTube
Tipu’s Tiger: Blog, Podcast
Eilean Mor: Blog, Podcast
The Beast of Gevaudan: Blog, Podcast.
Sabbatai Zevi/Dorothy Martin: Zevi Blog, Martin Blog, Podcast
Sophxit: Blog, Podcast
Three Short Tales: Blog, Podcast
Buried Alive!: Blog, Podcast
Mithridates: Prelude, Blog, Podcast
Grace O’Malley: Blog, Podcast
Jack Parsons: Blog, Podcast
Lord Lucan: Blog, Podcast

Tom Horn: One, Two, Three
Quoth The Raven – The Poe Toaster.
Charles Byrne’s Longest Show
Balloonfest!
Coffee! – The Swedes battle for a good cup of Joe.
Willie The Wimp (and his Cadillac coffin).
The Deadly Sophxit of Count Konigsmarck and Princess Sophia Dorothea
Denis Diderot’s Dressing Gown.
Mt. Tambora: Part One, Part Two.
Adrian Carton de Wiart: Part One, Part Two.
Merle Oberon
Grace O’Malley, The Pirate Queen of Connought.
The Vela Incident.

Musical Tales:
A Single Light Punching Through The Darkness
Goodnight My Love,
A Little Bird Told Me
Hazel Scott: The rise and tragic downfall of a phenom.
Before Rock and Roll: One, Two
Altamont
Marsha Albert’s Letter

Christmas Special: 2019, 2020.a, 2020.b

Ziryab: Influencer Extrordinaire
Nellie Bly: The Heroine Who Took on a Madhouse
Guillaume Boucher and the Fountain of Karakorum
Charles Lennox Richardson and the Namamugi Incident
Ignaz Trebitsch Lincoln: One, Two
The Pendle Witches: One, Two
The Nature Boys: A Supermarket in California… , eden ahbez
The Carrington Event
‘Lord’ Timothy Dexter
The John Frum Series: One, Two.
The Macabre Death of Antoine Lavoisier
The Gombe Chimpanzee War

The Womans History Month Series:
2019: In the Loge,
Mary Anning,
Five Trailblazing Ladies,
The Trung Sisters.
2020: Hazel Scott.
2021: Njinga of Ndongo

The Temple of Artemis
…..What I wish March 15th 2019 was remembered for……
The Harrying of the North.
A Spy, A Physicist and A Pop Star.
Why O is for Owesome and OK is Oll Korrect.