BRITAIN'S BOLD LEAP: THE GREAT CALENDAR CHANGE OF 1752

In the year 1753, a most peculiar event shook the very foundations of time itself in Britain. A bold leap forward, a radical alteration to the way they measured days and years - this was no ordinary change. The Gregorian Calendar, implemented by many European nations before, finally took hold 18th-century history on these shores. This adjustment wa

In this grim epoch of devastating pestilence, as the Black Death swept across Europe, a chilling apparition emerged from the: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, macabre coat of greased cloth and a unusual mask designed from leather, it became a symbol of both fear and temporary hope. They masks, regularly bearing peepholes, were thought to filter t