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

In the here year 1751, 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, embraced by many European nations before, finally took hold on these shores. This shift was not merely a matter of

In the grim epoch of ravaging pestilence, as the Black Death ripped across Europe, a chilling apparition emerged from its: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, horrific coat of waxed cloth and a alarming mask fashioned from leather, he emerged a omen of both fear and fleeting hope. They masks, regularly equipped with eyes, were thought to filter the