In the year 1751, a most unusual 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 adjustment was not merely a matter of
Masks of Mortality: Plague Doctors and the Black Death
In this grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, during the Black Death ripped across Europe, a chilling apparition emerged from the shadows: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, macabre coat of waxed cloth and a distinctive mask designed from leather, it emerged a omen of both fear and illusory hope. Their masks, regularly bearing peepholes, were imag