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Opium Eating: The Lincolnshire Fens in the early nineteenth-century

Originally posted on All Things Georgian:

Today’s blog is going to be a sad little tale of a family destroyed by opium in late Georgian England. It perhaps struck us so much because the family lived not in an inner city slum but instead in the flat and open agricultural landscape of the Lincolnshire Fens, a marshland close to the Wash, an estuary on the eastern coastline of England.

We’ll turn first to a newspaper report on the inquest of a child belonging to this family, poor little Rebecca...

Edward Arnold “Eddie” Chapman

Originally posted on Exequy's Blog:

Edward Arnold “Eddie” Chapman (16 November 1914 – 11 December 1997) was an English criminal and wartime spy. During the Second World War he offered his services to Nazi Germany as a spy and a traitor and subsequently became a British double agent. His British Secret Service handlers code named him Zigzag in acknowledgement of his rather erratic personal history. He had a number of criminal aliases known by the British police, amongst them Edward Edwards,...

Book Review: Women Heroes of World War II – by Kathryn J Atwood

myeagermind:

A must read

Originally posted on :

Women Heroes of World War II; 26 stories of espionage, sabotage, resistance & rescue – by Kathryn J Atwood

Iwas lucky enough to be contacted by Kathryn J Atwood, author of several books about the extraordinary lives of women during the First & Second World Wars. Kathyrn had come across the Sheroes of History blog, and rightly guessed that I might be interested in reading her books.

I have just finished the copy Kathryn sent meof Women Heroes of W...

My Favorite Peruvian Women

Originally posted on Natalia Maks:

I couldn’t take my eyes off them… At the times I didn’t photograph them, I just stared trying to memorize their costumes, their postures, their faces. Peruvian women are our very hard-working sisters. And, yes they are beautiful, they areharmoniouswith nature, theiroutfits and their belongings. Honestly, I fell in love with them.

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Profiles in Courage: The Irish Dimension to the Medal of Honor

Originally posted on Irish in the American Civil War:

On the 11 September last I was privileged to deliver the annual Lucas Lecture to the Stephen’s Green Hibernian Club in Dublin. I was very grateful to the Club for the invitation, which provided me with an opportunity to share some of my research on the Irish who have received the Medal of Honor. The Guests of Honour at the event were United States Ambassador to Ireland H.E. Mr. Kevin O’Malley and Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Mr. Cha...

The Maid of Norway – The Tragic Story of Scotland’s First Queen Regnant

Originally posted on History... the interesting bits!:

The coat of arms of Norway

The story of Margaret, the Maid of Norway, is short and sad. The little girl died before her 8th birthday, and before she ever set foot in the country of which she was Queen. And her death set into a motion a chain of events that would see Scotland torn apart by war for years to come.

Margaret’s claim to the Scottish throne came from her grandfather, Alexander III. Alexander had come to the throne at the age...

The Complicated Love Life of John of Gaunt

Originally posted on History... the interesting bits!:

It was an honour to be asked to do a guest blog post over at English Historical Authors.

As I recently wrote about 2 of the loves of John of Gaunt, Katherine Swynford and Blanche of Lancaster, I thought I’d look at it from John’s side, too – it’s only fair, after all.

Here’s a little snippet:

“He was a soldier and statesman whose career spanned 6 decades and several countries, including England, Belgium, France, Scotland and Castile. How...

Llangorse Lake And Crannog, Powys, Wales

Originally posted on The Journal of Antiquities:

Crannog on Llangorse Lake (photo credit: Pam Fray – for Geograph)

Os grid reference: SO 1287 2689. About37 metres fromthe northern shoreline of Llangorse Lake (Llyn Safaddan), Powys,also known as “Savaddan Lake andLake of Brycheiniog” (Bord, Janet & Colin, 1986), lies the tiny man-made island of Ynys Bwlc, which is in fact a crannog, a Dark Age island settlement, dating probably from about the beginning of the 10th century, or maybe earlier...

Final straggler: the Japanese soldier who outlasted Hiroo Onoda

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Fascinating story.

Originally posted on A Blast From The Past:

Teruo Nakamura, a soldier in the Imperial Japanese Army, survived deep in the jungles of Morotai for 29 years after the end of World War II – becoming the last of more than 120 stragglers to be rounded up on various islands in Indonesia and the Pacific between 1947 and 1974.

Japan’s past met its present, four decades ago, by a river in arainforest onthe island of Lubang.The encountertook place late in the tropical du...

Modernity and the Body: Sascha Schneider’s Bodybuilders

Originally posted on A R T LR K:

Hypnosis (1904)

On the 21st of September 1870, German painter and sculptor Sascha Schneider was born in Saint Petersburg, Russia. During his childhood his family lived in Zürich, Switzerland, but following the death of his father, Schneider moved to Dresden, Germany, where in 1889 he became a student at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts. In 1903 he met best-selling author Karl May, and subsequently became the cover illustrator of a number of May’s books incl...