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- "Women and Children First" https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Women-Children-First/ 73 comments
- The Chorleywood Experiment (2023) https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Chorleywood-Experiment-Bread/ 36 comments
- London's Great Stink https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Londons-Great-Stink/ 37 comments
- Neil Armstrong's Visit to Langholm https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofScotland/Neil-Armstrong-Visits-Langholm/ 5 comments
- Walter Arnold and the first speeding ticket https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Walter-Arnold-Worlds-First-Speeding-Ticket/ 2 comments
- The Match Girls https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Match-Girls-Strike/ 75 comments
- Barbary Pirates and English Slaves (2017) https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Barbary-Pirates-English-Slaves/ 176 comments
- A Victorian Two-Penny Hangover https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/Two-Penny-Hangover/ 20 comments
- Crossword Panic of 1944 https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Crossword-Panic-of-1944/ 41 comments
- Warwick the Kingmaker https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofEngland/Warwick-The-Kingmaker/ 8 comments history
- Ada Lovelace https://www.historic-uk.com/cultureuk/ada-lovelace/ 67 comments programming
- “Black Monday” or Easter Monday, 1360, was one of the deadliest of the Hundred Years War, and it was caused by hail. https://www.historic-uk.com/historyuk/historyofengland/black-monday-1360/ 259 comments history
- How did Victorian London support so many pubs? https://www.historic-uk.com/CultureUK/The-Great-British-Pub/ 17 comments history
- Blockstream logic is akin to the prediction made in 1894 "In 50 years, every street in London will be buried under nine feet of manure". https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Great-Horse-Manure-Crisis-of-1894/ 5 comments btc
- Opium in Victorian Britain http://www.historic-uk.com/historyuk/historyofbritain/opium-in-victorian-britain/ 4 comments history
- TIL of a Polish pilot who, after being shot down during the Battle of Britain, landed in a country club and proceeded to play and win a game a tennis before an RAF truck came to pick him up. http://www.historic-uk.com/historyuk/historyofbritain/polish-pilots-the-battle-of-britain/ 15 comments europe
- TIL that in 1720's England, at the height of stock market frenzy among the public, a company raised £2000 by selling shares for, quote, "an undertaking of great advantage but no-one to know what it is". http://www.historic-uk.com/historyuk/historyofengland/south-sea-bubble/ 25 comments economy
- The Pig War of 1859 http://www.historic-uk.com/historyuk/historyofbritain/the-pig-war/ 264 comments history
- The 335 Year War - The Isles of Scilly vs the Netherlands http://www.historic-uk.com/historyuk/historyofengland/the-335-year-war-the-longest-war-in-history/ 20 comments europe