1091 Tornado (possible T8/F4) strikes the heart of London killing 2 and demolishing the then wooden London Bridge on this day in history. 1157 On this day in history the Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country...
Having traveled to London, Paris, and Prague, and having kept travel diaries for those beautiful cities, there was no way to avoid my setting stories in those remarkable places. Interestingly, though, my impressions of Prague were always informed by the genre of steampunk. What I mean by tha...
Public deliberation has risen to the forefront of governance as a technique for increasing participation in policy making. Scholars and practitioners have also noted the potential for deliberation to give greater influence to historically marginalized populations, such as Indigenous peoples. However, there...
The most commonly cited disease map of historical significance is probably John Snow’s map demonstrating his method of identifying the source for cholera in a specific part of London. This is considered one of the most important classic uses of mapping epidemic related data for purposes of identi...
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The Liverpool Jewish community was the earliest to be formed in the north of England (c1745) and for much of the 19th century, it was the largest UK Jewish community outside London. However, examination of this important minority community from a social, demographic, and genealogical perspective...
The attractiveWhite Hart Innset back in a mews was frequented by Robert Burns and William Wordsworth. Stagecoaches set off from here for London. Canongate Tollbooth, built in 1591 now houses a collection of Highland Dress. Pass the unusualCanongate Churchbefore reaching the modernScottish Parliament...
Historical notes in the form of chronicles containing information about extreme weather events and weather- related disasters are important sources of data about climatic conditions of the past millennium. In many cases, such notations are very precise as they locate events in space and time, ...
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