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The 282-ton brigantine Amazon was built in 1861 in Nova Scotia Canada. In Nov 1872, and now called Mary Celeste, the ship sailed from New York Harbour en route to Genoa. It was a merchant ship with a tricky past so presumably the name change was to disassociate itself from a series of mishaps eg the sudden…
In 1971 Switzerland became one of the last countries in Europe to grant women the vote at national level; only the small neighbouring principality of Liechtenstein was later in doing so, in 1984. It may seem surprising that a country that was an early republic, that became in the 20th...
29.1.2021
Bikur Cholim SynagogueThe Jerusalem Post reported that Izmir is Turkey’s third largest city with c4 million people. Izmir aka Smyrna is the principal seaport of Western Anatolia on the coast of the Aegean Sea. The Jewish community in Izmir goes back to the C4th BC. The city’s oldest district, Kemeralti, was home to the densest…
20.1.2021
The first confirmed outbreak of sweating disease arrived in England in 1485, towards the end of the Wars of the Roses (1455–87). This led to speculation that it may have been brought over from France by the French mercenaries used by Henry Tudor to win the English throne. Major epidemic waves followed in 1508, then 1517,…
17.1.2021
Thank you to History and Will. When the United States Industrial Alcohol Company/USIA decided to build a huge molasses tank, they put it smack in the middle of Boston’s North End, a community made up largely of Italian immigrants in a densely populated neighbourhood.Pulling victims outSmithsonian21 people were killed on Commercial St in the North…
New York’s prosperity before the Civil War was closely tied to slavery and the Cotton South. But it was only in the southern states, where the economy was based on the plantation agriculture, that slavery was legal. Slavery had been ended in the northern states where industrialisation did not require cheap labour. Thus the northern…
25.12.2020
By the early C19th, London had become the world’s largest city. To deal with concerns re preventing crime, Home Secretary Sir Robert Peel introduced the Metropolitan Police Act to Parliament 1829. But people were afraid that the new police force would be used by the government to spy on them. So under the Act, the…
18.12.2020
Red Cross medical dispatcher, 1914Red Cross Museum and ArchivesIn 1859, businessman Henry Dunant from Switzerland was travelling in northern Italy when he witnessed the aftermath of a bloody battle between Franco-Sardinian and Austrian forces near the village of Solferino. The fighting had left c40,000 troops dead or injured, and neither the armies nor the locals were equipped to deal with the…
This is a guest post by Sherine Hamade with consultations from the Hades beta tester, Cian Sutherland. Sherine Hamade (they/them) is a graduate student studying Public History at the University […]
City Square There were 3 main cities in the Trans Carpathian region. The Trans-Carpathian town of Uzhorod is now located in Western Ukraine. This beautiful city was the central hub for the regional railways system which departed for local provinces and to neighbouring Hungary and Slovenia. Khust is now located in Western Ukraine, 3rd largest city in the county and…
11.12.2020
Gertrude Bell (1868-1926) was the granddaughter of a British baronet and the daughter of an influential iron-and-steel dynasty. She was only 3 when her mother died, but she was lucky having an affectionate and imaginative father. But this headstrong, clever child lacked challenge. As a teen she seemed to be facing a life of cocktail…