‘Wow, people really used to do that 50 years ago’ – 16 ‘normal’ things in 2025, that by 2075 will be seen as barbaric
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‘What was the biggest waste of money in human history?’ – 17 times money was spaffed up the tallest of walls
People have been sharing the historical facts they weren’t taught in school – 17 pieces of the past that might have passed you by
Experts have recreated how Richard III might have sounded – and it’s nothing like Laurence Olivier
People have been sharing their most tenuous historical claims to fame – 17 eye-opening links to the past
This passer-by’s most British of corrections about ‘London Bridge’ had Americans proper fuming
This list of causes of death of people in London in 1632 went wildly viral and it’s a grimly fascinating read
This viral thread explaining why Madrid is the capital of Spain is an unexpectedly riveting read
The ‘End Wokeness’ account complained about Netflix portraying Alexander the Great as gay and it didn’t end well for them
Maternity ward rules were very very different in the 1940s
‘The History of Adults Blaming the Younger Generation’ tells a familiar and never-ending story
BBC archive footage from 1961 shows The Crooked House in all its wonky glory
Jacob Rees-Mogg dredged up the history of the British Empire to criticise the Civil Service and got schooled into the 19th century
19th-century cough syrup wasn’t messing about
Just a fascinating list of 19 ‘Unfortunate Author Deaths’ for the morbidly curious