Category: History

The Reignition of the Britain’s Fire Festivals

May Day has been enjoyed again in London, even in the rough and un-gentrified areas like my beloved Walworth Road. England has always loved its […]

The creative and often times dirty things Romans wrote on walls

Writing on walls is one of the oldest things humans did – people drew on walls in the stone age, and they still do so […]

Buried treasure in Wiltshire

A bottle that was dug up on a farm in Wiltshire has sold at auction for almost £8,000. The farmer who discovered it on his […]

Southern Nessie mystery solved

Call it the Cretaceous cold case. For years, bones belonging to a mystery meat-eating ocean reptile had sat in Canterbury Museum, with scientists not completely […]

You could be the proud owner of Dracula’s Castle, and you name the price

If you hate the sun, sleep all day, and have a flair for the dramatic, then you might like to know that “Dracula’s Castle” is […]

A lost treasure worth $375,000 is buried somewhere along this river

On June 26, 1876, Lt. Col. George A. Custer led 263 soldiers against several thousand Lakota and Cheyenne warriors. The Battle would be known as […]

Top 10 facts about ghosts

In Ancient Rome, May 13 was the last of three days on which the feast of Lemuralia was celebrated, when malevolent ghosts were exorcised from […]

Found after 500 years, the wreck of Christopher Columbus’s flagship the Santa Maria

More than five centuries after Christopher Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, was wrecked in the Caribbean, archaeological investigators think they may have discovered the vessel’s […]

Lemuria

In ancient Rome Floralia was celebrated with much the same revelry seen with spring break today. Drinking, public nudity, and love-making, along with theater, the […]

How Protestantism fuelled Europe’s deadly witch craze

In an island with such a unique and rich past, it is unsurprising that the country’s leaders occasionally turn to history in times of need.Over […]

Precursor to Paleo-Hebrew Script Discovered in Jerusalem

During the 2012 excavations at the southern wall of the Temple Mount, archaeologist Eilat Mazar discovered an inscription with the earliest alphabet letters ever found […]

Abandoned: Haunting snapshots of a life once lived in rural Ireland

PHOTOGRAPHER DONAL MOLONEY, who spends his time sneaking around abandoned homes across the country and capturing their chilling beauty, has brought us some new treats […]

Magonia Magazine: Spooklights in Tradition and Folklore

Few people today will have heard about the once common phenomenon known generally in the British Isles as ‘Will o’the Wisp’ or ‘Jack o’Lantern’. Prior […]

Survival and mortality in post-plague London

The medieval Black Death that struck Europe from 1347-1351 CE, has been considered one of the most devastating epidemics in human history. Europe’s populations dwindled […]

Dogs of God! Christian Werewolves?

This is one of those rare times in the early modern witch craze where one feels sorry for the judges. I mean they turn up […]

Manchester through the ages: Discarded treasures unearthed from four-year dig at Whitworth Park exhibited

Manchester Museum is set to take a trip through the ages by displaying some of the items which have been discarded over the years at […]

Exhibition traces our love of tattoos from Neolithic age to today

Once considered the mark of an underclass of criminals, prostitutes, bikers, seafarers and those inhabiting the margins of society, the tattoo is now à la […]

A newly discovered, 3,100-year-old Egyptian tomb includes intricate hieroglyphics describing the afterlife

Archeologists have found a tomb dating back to around 1100 B.C. south of Cairo, Egypt’s Antiquities Ministry said Thursday.Antiquities Minister Mohamed Ibrahim said that the […]

Glagoslav Releases ‘Wolf Messing’

Tested by Hitler, Freud, Gandhi and Stalin, Wolf Messing was one of the few major psychics of the twentieth century. In 1937, after Messing publicly […]

Black magician Aleister Crowley’s early gay verse comes to light

In 1898 the Wickedest Man in the World was feeling thoroughly sorry for himself. The occultist Aleister Crowley’s first great love affair, with fellow Cambridge […]

A Barbary Ape Skull from Navan Fort, Co. Armagh

Traditionally associated with the kings of Ulster, the great hilltop enclosure of Eamhain Mhacha Navan Fort, Co. Armagh is an early Irish royal site. In […]

A Rich Woman Abandoned This Apartment In 1942. What They Just Found Inside Is Incredible.

This stunning Paris apartment was abandoned by Madame de Florian during World War II. She was an actress and socialite who fled to the south […]

The Abandoned Auditorium of Todmorden’s New Olympia Cinema

Behind this elegant Art Deco facade, the abandoned auditorium of Todmorden’s long shuttered New Olympia Cinema has sat in silence for decades, hidden away from […]

The Magical History Tour That Is ‘Pagan Britain’

An expert on past and present paganism, Ronald Hutton revises his 1991 survey of practices in the ancient British Isles to narrow it to Great […]

Treasure find sparks hopes of new Staffordshire Hoard | Stoke Sentinel

BURIED treasure uncovered by a pub landlord could go on display at Stoke-on-Trent’s main museum.The 10 valuable pennies – dating back roughly 900 years – […]