| Article Subject | Issue |
| "Bite the bullet" phrase origin (trivia) |
2007 January |
| "Forty-Five" Rebellion (1740s timeline) |
2005 January |
| "In the Clink " phrase origin (trivia) |
2006 November |
| "Steal My Thunder" phrase origin (trivia) |
2006 May |
| "1900 House"
television series |
2000 July |
| 700-799 timeline | 2001 September |
| 1000AD
timeline |
2000 January |
| 1050-1099
timeline |
2005 September |
| 1150-99 timeline |
2006 March |
| 1200-24
timeline |
2003 September |
| 1275-1299
timeline |
2007 January |
| 1324-49 timeline |
2005 March |
| 1400-24
timeline |
2001 January |
| 1450s
timeline |
2004 July |
| 1460s timeline |
2006 July |
| 1490s timeline |
2003 March |
| 1500s "Facts" |
2002 March |
| 1520s timeline |
2001 May |
| 1530s timeline |
2006 January |
| 1550s timeline |
2004 November |
| 1560s timeline |
2006 September |
| 1570s timeline |
2002 November |
| 1580s timeline |
2001 November |
| 1600-1609 timeline |
2005 May |
| 1640s timeline |
2003 November |
| 1650s timeline |
2007 March |
| 1660s timeline |
2006 May |
| 1680s timeline |
2003 July |
| 1690s timeline |
2000 September |
| 1700-09
timeline |
2002 September |
| 1710s
timeline |
2004 September |
| 1720s timeline |
2003 May |
| 1730s timeline |
2002 January |
| 1740s timeline |
2005 January |
| 1750s timeline |
1999 November |
| 1770s timeline |
2001 March |
| 1780s timeline |
2007 May |
| 1790s timeline |
2004 March |
| 1800-09
timeline |
2000 November |
| 1810s timeline |
2003 January |
| 1812 War (1810s timeline) |
2003 January |
| 1820s timeline |
2000 March |
| 1830s timeline |
2005 July |
| 1840s timeline |
2002 March |
| 1860s timeline |
2001 July |
| 1870s timeline |
2000 July |
| 1880s timeline |
2004 May |
| 1890s timeline |
2006 November |
| 1900-09
timeline |
2002 July |
| 1910s timeline |
2000 May |
| 1920s timeline |
2005 November |
| 400s timeline |
2004 January |
| 50BC-1BC
timeline |
2002 May |
| Abacuses
(trivia) |
2002 July |
| Absinthe
(trivia) |
2001 November |
| Acadia --
British invasion (1710s timeline) |
2004 September |
| Africa --
division by European powers (1880s timeline) |
2004 May |
| Agincourt --
battle (1400-24 timeline) |
2001 January |
| Air Brake
|
2007 January |
| air-conditioning
(sidebar) |
2000 March |
| Albigensian
Crusade (1200-24 timeline) |
2003 September |
| Alcatraz |
2005 November |
| Alchemy |
2000 May |
| Alcohol -- Early North American (Book extract) |
2006 May |
| Alcoholic
drinks' names' etymology |
2003 March |
| Aluminum |
2006 September |
| Ambulances -- Animal (WWI) |
2006 May |
| American
Independence (1770s timeline) |
2001 March |
| American Revolution -- end (1780s timeline) |
2007 May |
| American
system -- manufacturing |
2004 January |
| Amusements in Dr.
Johnson's London (Book extract) |
2002 July |
| Anchoresses |
2006 July |
| Anesthesiology |
2002 May |
| Anabaptists |
2004 November |
| Anglo-Boer
War, First (1880s timeline) |
2004 May |
| Anglo-Saxon
Calendar (1000AD timeline) |
2000 January |
| Anglo-Saxon
invasion of Britain (400s timeline) |
2004 January |
| Animal Welfare Societies |
2004 November |
| Anthrax |
2002 January |
| Armor |
2002 November |
| Army life --
18th century |
2004 July |
| Arsenic |
2001 November |
| Asphalt
(trivia) |
2004 March |
| Aspirin
(trivia) |
2003 March |
| Assizes |
2004 November |
| Astrolabe
(trivia) |
2003 May |
| Astronomy |
2001 March |
| Astronomy -- Dark Ages |
2006 September |
| Astronomy from
Copernicus onwards |
2003 September |
| Atlantic Cable |
1999 November |
| Augsburg Convention (1530s timeline) |
2006 January |
| Austrian Succession -- War (1740s timeline) |
2005 January |
| Automobile accident -- first fatal (trivia) |
2007 January |
| Autopilot
(reader question) |
2004 July |
| Average Yearly
Incomes (1750s timeline) |
1999 November |
| Aztecs' conquest (1520s timeline) |
2001 May |
| Aztecs Empire -- Conquest |
2004 November |
| Babington Plot
(1580s timeline) |
2001 November |
| Bagpipes |
2001 July |
| Bakelite (Trivia) |
2005 March |
| Balkan Wars
(1910s timeline) |
2000 May |
| Ballpoint pens (trivia) |
2006 July |
| Banana War (Central America) |
2006 January |
| Bank of
England (1690s timeline) |
2000 September |
| Banks -- mechanical |
2005 January |
| Barbarossa, Frederick (1150-99 timeline) |
2006 March |
| Barbary
pirates (1790s timeline) |
2004 March |
| Barbed wire (trivia) |
2006 September |
| Baseball's
origins |
2003 March |
| Basketball |
2003 September |
| Batteries
(trivia) |
2001 July |
| Battle -- Agincourt (1400-24 timeline) |
2001 January |
| Battle -- Plains of Abraham |
2005 July |
| Battle between
USS Constitution and HMS Guerriere (three different views) |
2001 January |
| Battle of
elimination (reader question) |
2003 November |
| Battle of
Hastings (1050-1099 timeline) |
2005 September |
| Battle -- Lepanto (1570s timeline) |
2002 November |
| Battle -- Little Big Horn |
2000 January |
| Battle -- Santiago de Cuba |
2006 March |
| Battle -- Tours (700-799 timeline) |
2001 September |
| Battle -- Towton (1460s timeline) |
2006 July |
| Battle of
Trafalgar |
2005 November |
| Battle of
Waterloo |
2005 March |
| Bayeux
Tapestry (trivia) |
2002 July |
| Beach visits
in the Victorian Age |
2003 January |
| Becket, Thomas (1150-99 timeline) |
2006 March |
| Beekeeping |
2003 July |
| Beer
|
2001 July |
| Beethoven's
Ninth Symphony (1820s timeline) |
2000 March |
| Bellevue
Hospital, NY |
2000 January |
| Bible, King James Version |
2003 March |
| Bicycles |
2001 November |
| Biological
Warfare |
2003 May |
| Black Death |
1999 November |
| Black Death (1324-49 timeline) |
2005 March |
| Black Sunday
storm (14 April 1935) |
2004 September |
| Blackbeard
(1710s timeline) |
2004 September |
| Blacksmith in
colonial America |
2000 May |
| Blancmange
(trivia) |
2002 May |
| Blarney Stone
(trivia) |
2002 May |
| Blizzard of 1888 (Book extract) |
2006 March |
| Blockade running -- Civil War |
2007 May |
| Bloodhound
breed |
2004 May |
| Bloodletting |
2000 November |
| Bluestockings (trivia) |
2006 January |
| Board Games |
2003 March |
| Boardwalks |
2007 March |
| Bolivar, Simón
(1820s timeline) |
2000 March |
| Bookmaking in
the Middle Ages |
2003 January |
| Book-plates
(trivia) |
2002 July |
| Books --
history |
2001 May |
| Borden, Lizzie |
2007 March |
| Borgias (1490s
timeline) |
2003 March |
| Bounty -- mutiny (1780s timeline) |
2007 May |
| Bourbon --
drink |
2001 March |
| Bowdlerism (trivia) |
2005 January |
| Boxer
Rebellion (1900-09 timeline) |
2002 July |
| Braces -- orthodontic (trivia) |
2006 January |
| Braille |
2005 September |
| Brands --
company |
2000 July |
| Branks
(trivia) |
2000 July |
| Bread (and
bread recipe) |
1999 November |
| Bread -- pre-sliced (trivia) |
2006 January |
| Breck's Shampoo (trivia) |
2006 November |
| Bridge -- London |
2005 November |
| Bricks --
Boston (reader question) |
2003 November |
| Brideships --
British Columbia |
2004 March |
| Britain -- Prime Minister
(1720s timeline) |
2003 May |
| Britain's
Naval Mutinies (1790s timeline) |
2004 March |
| Bundling
(courting custom) |
2001 May |
| Burns, William J. |
2006 March |
| Buttons and
buttonholes (trivia) |
2001 March |
| Buttons |
2005 January |
| Cabot, John
(1490s timeline) |
2003 March |
| Calendar --
Georgian (1580s timeline) |
2001 November |
| California
Gold Rush |
2000 September |
| Camera obscura
(trivia) |
2003 September |
| Canada -- Four prime ministers (1890s timeline) |
2006 November |
| Canada --
Rebellions of Upper and Lower Canada (1830s timeline) |
2005 July |
| Canada --
Union Act (1840s timeline) |
2002 March |
| Canadian Coast
Guard (sidebar) |
2002 September |
| Canadian
Confederation (1860s timeline) |
2001 July |
| Canadian
Pacific Railway |
2005 March |
| Canal --
Panama |
2000 November |
| Canal -- Suez |
2000 March |
| Canal boat
life |
2003 July |
| Canal locks
(sidebar) |
2003 July |
| Canals -- English |
2004 July |
| Candy corn (trivia) |
2006 November |
| Canes -- Walking (trivia) |
2006 March |
| Cannae -- Battle |
2007 March |
| Canute and the Tide? (Enduring Myth) |
2005 July |
| Car made of
soybean by-product -- Henry Ford (reader question) |
2004 May |
| Carbon paper (trivia) |
2006 September |
| Card games |
2002 March |
| cards --
playing (trivia) |
2000 July |
| Carolingian
Renaissance (700-799 timeline) |
2001 September |
| Carousels |
2003 May |
| Carpetbaggers
in the American South |
2000 July |
| Carriages |
2000 March |
| Casanova,
Giacono (sidebar) |
2000 March |
| Cash registers (trivia) |
2005 July |
| Castle -- life
in an English Castle |
2003 November |
| Castrati
(male singers) |
2004 July |
| Cattle Drives |
2004 January |
| Centennial
Exhibition (1870s timeline) |
2000 July |
| Chain gangs (trivia) |
2006 July |
| Chain mail (trivia) |
2005 March |
| Chairs
(trivia) |
2000 July |
| Charles II of Britain in exile (1650s timeline) |
2007 March |
| Charles V's Empire -- dismantling (1550s timeline) |
2004 November |
| Charm strings
-- 19th-century fad |
2004 March |
| Chatelaines
(trivia) |
2001 May |
| Cheese |
2004 January |
| Chemical
Discoveries (1770s timeline) |
2001 March |
| Cheng Ho
(1400-24 timeline) |
2001 January |
| Chess |
2000 November |
| Chewing Gum |
2003 January |
| Chewing gum
(trivia) |
2001 January |
| Chicago in
1880 |
2000 May |
| Childbirth |
2001 January |
| Children's
Crusade (1200-24 timeline) |
2003 September |
| Chocolate egg
creams (drink) (trivia) |
2003 November |
| Cholera
(trivia) |
2000 January |
| Cholera -- book extract
|
2005 May |
| Christianity
-- 5th-century controversies (400s timeline) |
2004 January |
| Christina of Sweden (1650s timeline) |
2007 March |
| Christmas 1647 (Puritan) |
2007 January |
| Christmas in
America |
2001 January |
| Christmas
plants |
2004 January |
| Christmas
recipes |
2001 January |
| Christmas traditions -- candy cane |
2007 January |
| Christmas traditions -- holly |
2007 January |
| Christmas traditions -- wassailing |
2007 January |
| Chroniclers and scribes |
2007 March |
| Cinnamon |
2006 May |
| Circus in
America |
2001 November |
| Civil War --
English (1640s timeline) |
2003 November |
| Civil War --
US -- causes (1860s timeline) |
2001 July |
| Cleanliness
(hygiene) and soap recipe |
1999 November |
| Clocks |
2007 March |
| Clogs (trivia) |
2001 September |
| Clovis --
Baptism (400s timeline) |
2004 January |
| Coal bunker fires |
2007 March |
| Coast Guards |
2002 September |
| Cockney Rhyming Slang -- origins of (Enduring Myth) |
2005 July |
| Cod |
2003 January |
| Code Napoleon |
1999 November |
| Codpieces
(trivia) |
2003 January |
| Coeur,
Jacques (1450s timeline) |
2004 July |
| Coffee |
2001 May |
| Coffeehouses |
2002 September |
| Coffins
(trivia) |
2000 September |
| Colonial America -- barter and trade |
2007 March |
| Colonial completion (1720s
timeline) |
2003 May |
| Colonial doors
-- painted to indicate profession (reader question) |
2004 January |
| Colonial meals (book extract) |
2007 May |
| Colonies, call
to unite (1750s timeline) |
1999 November |
| Columbus,
Christopher (1490s timeline) |
2003 March |
| Comets |
2003 May |
| Communism -- growth in Russia |
2005 November 2005 |
| Communist
Manifesto (1840s timeline) |
2002 March |
| Complexions |
2006 May |
| Concrete |
2005 July |
| Condensed milk (trivia) |
2004 November |
| Conestoga
wagons (trivia) |
1999 November |
| Coney Island |
2006 March |
| Confederacy
Life |
2002 November |
| Confederates
in Brazil |
2002 November |
| Confetti
(trivia) |
2001 March |
| Congress of
Vienna (1810s timeline) |
2003 January |
| Constantinople's
fall (1450s timeline) |
2004 July |
| Constitution
Act -- Canada (1790s timeline) |
2004 March |
| Contact - Europeans and North Americans (1000AD timeline) |
2000 January |
| Contraception |
2000 March |
| Cook, Captain
James (1770s timeline) |
2001 March |
| Cooking,
medieval (trivia) |
2000 September |
| Corkscrews (trivia) |
2007 January |
| Coroners |
2003 May |
| Corsets
(trivia) |
2000 November |
| Cosmetics in
the 1700s (trivia) |
1999 November |
| Cossacks
(1580s timeline) |
2001 November |
| Coudray,
Madame de (midwife) (sidebar) |
2000 March |
| Country Store
-- 19th century |
2000 May |
| Court tennis (trivia) |
2005 November |
| Cowboys |
2004 January |
| Crapper, Thomas -- inventor of toilet? (enduring myth) |
2005 May |
| Cravats
(trivia) |
2002 May |
| Crayons
(trivia) |
2004 July |
| Cremation |
2000 January |
| Criminals
(Sawney Bean, Gilles de Rais, Dracula, Sweeney Todd) |
2001 September |
| Crinolines,
caged (trivia) |
2003 September |
| Croissants (trivia) |
2000 May |
| Crossbow |
2005 March |
| Crossword
puzzles (trivia) |
2003 May |
| Crown Jewels
-- English loss of by King John |
2002 May |
| Crusade --
fifth (1200-24 timeline) |
2003 September |
| Crusade --
first (1050-1099 timeline) |
2005 September |
| Crusade --
first |
2001 May |
| Crusade
(fourth) and the sack of Constantinople (1200-24 timeline) |
2003 September |
| Crusade -- Third (1150-99 timeline) |
2006 March |
| Crusades -- end (1275-1299 timeline) |
2007 January |
| Crystal Palace Exhibition |
2002 July |
| Currency --
silver dollars |
2004 July |
| Currency
conversions -- historical (reader question) |
2004 January |
| Custer, George Armstrong |
2000 January |
| Custer's Last
Stand (1870s timeline) |
2000 July |
| Da Gama's
first voyage (1490s timeline) |
2003 March |
| Dane-geld poem
by Rudyard Kipling (1000AD timeline) |
2000 January |
| Dashwood, Sir Francis (Hell-Fire club) |
2005 September |
| Daughters of
the King (Filles du roi) |
2003 May |
| Daughters of
the King (Filles du roi) (1660s timeline) |
2006 May |
| Daylight
Saving Time (trivia) |
2004 January |
| Death
traditions |
2000 January |
| De' Medici (Catherine) and the beginning of the French Wars of Religion (1560s timeline) |
2006 September |
| De' Medici, Cosimo (1460s timeline) |
2006 July |
| Denim |
2005 May |
| Dentistry -- 19th century |
2007 January |
| Dentures
(trivia) |
2001 November |
| Derby hat |
2006 January |
| Detergent (trivia) |
2007 May |
| Diabetes |
2004 September |
| Diabetes |
2006 November |
| Diagnosis and treatment in Elizabethan period |
2005 January |
| Diamonds |
2002 November |
| Dice (trivia) |
2005 September |
| Dictionaries |
2005 November |
| Dinner For
Eight (Beeton's Book of Household Management) |
2000 January |
| Disasters (trivia) |
1999 November |
| Disraeli and primrose |
2007 May |
| Distilled
alcohol (trivia) |
2000 July |
| Dix, Dorothea
- advocate for the mentally ill (sidebar) |
2000 July |
| Dodo (trivia) |
2004 May |
| Dog collars
(trivia) |
2002 July |
| Domesday Book |
2001 November |
| Domesday Book (1050-1099 timeline) |
2005 September |
| Donner Party
(1840s timeline) |
2002 March |
| Dowries |
2005 November |
| Drake, Francis
-- Piracy (1570s timeline) |
2002 November |
| Drive-Ins |
2005 November |
| Dudley, Amy (1560s timeline) |
2006 September |
| Dueling |
2006 January |
| Dungeons |
2001 September |
| Dyes |
2007 January |
| Earthquake -- 1906 San Francisco |
2006 May |
| Easter |
2004 May |
| Eclipses
(trivia) |
2001 November |
| Eddystone
lighthouse (sidebar) |
2000 July |
| Edict of
Nantes' revocation (1680s timeline) |
2003 July |
| Edison, Thomas
Alva (1870s timeline) |
2000 July |
| Edison, Thomas
Alva (sidebar) |
2004 May |
| Education -- Victorian London (Book extract) |
2006 July |
| Education of
the Colored Population of Louisiana (Harper's New Monthly
Magazine, July 1866) |
2002 July |
| Eleanor Crosses (1275-1299 timeline) |
2007 January |
| Eleanor
crosses (trivia) |
2002 January |
| Eleanor
of Aquitaine (1150-99 timeline) |
2006 March |
| Elevators |
2005 May |
| Elevators
(trivia) |
2000 January |
| Elizabeth I -- courtships (1560s timeline) |
2006 September |
| Elizabeth of Russia (1740s timeline) |
2005 January |
| Elizabethan Age -- End (1600-09 timeline) |
2005 May |
| Elizabethan
spying |
2003 July |
| Encyclopedias
(trivia) |
2000 September |
| England -- Commonwealth and Protectorate (1650s timeline) |
2007 March |
| England under Mary I (1550s timeline) |
2004 November |
| English
Alphabet |
2004 January |
| English
-- Break with Rome (1530s timeline) |
2006 January |
| English Civil
War (1640s timeline) |
2003 November |
| English
Commonwealth (1640s timeline) |
2003 November |
| English
language |
2002 January |
| English
language origins (trivia) |
1999 November |
| English women
in British India |
2000 September |
| Enlightened depots -- end (1780s timeline) |
2007 May |
| Enlightenment
(1710s timeline) |
2004 September |
| Erie Canal
(1820s timeline) |
2000 March |
| Escalators
(trivia) |
2004 July |
| Esperanto
(trivia) |
2000 May |
| Espionage
against the US |
2003 March |
| Etiquette
(trivia) |
2002 March |
| Europe in
1000AD (1000AD timeline) |
2000 January |
| Europe in 1730
(map) |
2002 May |
| Evening entertainment
-- (early 19th-century nights) |
2000 January |
| Eyeglasses
(trivia) |
2000 January |
| Factory Workers -- Canada -- 19th Century |
2005 September |
| Fairies -- Cottingley -- hoax |
2006 September |
| False Dmitrys -- Russia (1600 - 1609 timeline) |
2005 May |
| Farm women in
the 19th century |
2002 November |
| Farming in the
New World |
2001 January |
| Farthing |
2006 November |
| Fasteners
(trivia) |
2002 January |
| Ferris Wheels |
2003 July |
| Fertility -- medieval |
2004 March |
| Filles du roi -- Daughters of
the King |
2003 May |
| Filles du roi -- Daughters of
the King (1660s timeline) |
2006 May |
| Fingerprinting
(trivia) |
2004 May |
| Fire hydrants
(trivia) |
2003 March |
| Fire marks
(sidebar) |
2000 September |
| Firearms'
introduction to Europe (book extract) |
2003 September |
| Fish Cars
(Railway) |
2002 September |
| Five Points Slum -- Life in |
2006 November |
| Flagellants (1324-49 timeline) |
2005 March |
| Flappers |
2002 September |
| Flashlights (trivia) |
2007 May |
| Flat-earth
belief (trivia) |
2000 July |
| Flea circuses
(trivia) |
2003 July |
| Flowerpots
(trivia) |
2001 July |
| Flying Shuttle
(1730s timeline) |
2002 January |
| Folies/Follies (trivia) |
2005 January |
| Food and
dining up to 1860s |
2000 July |
| Food -- frozen |
2007 May |
| Food Preservation (book extract) |
2005 July |
| Footbinding In
China |
2001 September |
| Forks (trivia) |
2001 January |
| Forvie -- lost village (Scotland) |
2006 November |
| Founding of
Montreal (1640s timeline) |
2003 November |
| Foxhunting |
2003 May |
| France -- the Fronde (1650s timeline) |
2007 March |
| France's Reign
of Terror (1790s timeline) |
2004 March |
| Franco-Prussian
War (1870s timeline) |
2000 July |
| Franklin,
Benjamin |
2001 July |
| Franklin,
Benjamin |
2007 January |
| Franklin (
Benjamin) and Journalism (Book extract) |
2006 September) |
| Free People of Color in Louisiana |
2005 July |
| Freemasonry |
2000 May |
| French America (Book extract) |
2006 November |
| French
republican calendar (reader question) |
2004 March |
| French Revolution -- beginning (1780s timeline) |
2007 May |
| French Wars of Religion -- beginnings (1560s timeline) |
2006 September |
| Frobisher's
Expeditions (1570s timeline) |
2002 November |
| Fronde (1640s
timeline) |
2003 November |
| Garbage |
2004 November |
| Gardening in
the 1800s |
2003 January |
| Garment
Industry |
2002 September |
| Gates of
Paradise (doors of Baptistery in Florence
(1450s timeline) |
2004 July |
| Gatlin Gun |
2000 November |
| Genghis Khan's
rise (1200-24 timeline) |
2003 September |
| George III of Britain -- madness (1780s timeline) |
2007 May |
| Georgia's
founding (1730s timeline) |
2002 January |
| Germ theory |
2004 November |
| Geronimo |
2002 May |
| Gerrymandering
(trivia) |
2004 January |
| Gin |
2004 July |
| Gin Lane
(1750s timeline) |
1999 November |
| Gingerbread |
2005 March |
| Glass
Harmonica (trivia) |
2004 January |
| Glencoe
Massacre (1690s timeline) |
2000 September |
| Glyndwr, Owain |
2005 November |
| Glorious
Revolution (1680s timeline) |
2003 July |
| Gold -- Pre-Columbian |
2005 September |
| Grahamism |
2004 November |
| Granada's Fall
(1490s timeline) |
2003 March |
| Grand Alliance
-- war (1680s timeline) |
2003 July |
| Grand Review
(23-24 May 1865) (US Civil War Parade) |
2000 March |
| Grand Tour |
2003 May |
| Grass cutting
teams with special shoes (trivia) |
1999 November |
| Great Fire of London |
2005 January |
| Great Fire of London (1660s timeline) |
2006 May |
| Great Northern Expedition (1740s timeline) |
2005 January |
| Great Northern
War (1700-09 timeline) |
2002 September |
| Great Pox
(syphilis) |
2003 September |
| Great Race
(1889) |
2003 July |
| Great Schism of 1054 (1050-1099 timeline) |
2005 September |
| Great Western
Schism's end (1400-24 timeline) |
2001 January |
| Greek Fire (trivia) |
2006 May |
| Greek
Independence (1820s timeline) |
2000 March |
| Gretna Green
(trivia) |
2003 November |
| Groundhog Day
(trivia) |
2005 March |
| Gryffydd, Llywelyn ap (1275-1299 timeline) |
2007January |
| Guerre, Martin (1550s timeline) |
2004 November |
| Guide dogs for
blind (trivia) |
2004 March |
| Guilds |
2001 January |
| Guillotines
(trivia) |
2001 September |
| Gunpowder and
saltpeter (trivia) |
2001 May |
| Gunpowder Plot (1600-1609 timeline) |
2005 May |
| Gutenberg
Bible (1450s timeline) |
2004 July |
| Gutta-percha |
2007 March |
| Guy Fawkes Night |
2002 January |
| Hague Peace
Conferences (1900-09 timeline) |
2002 July |
| Hair receivers
(trivia) |
2003 May |
| Haitian
Rebellion (1790s timeline) |
2004 March |
| Halley's Comet
(1700-09 timeline) |
2002 September |
| Halloween |
2003 November |
| Hand fans
(trivia) |
2001 November |
| Handcart
Pioneers (Mormons) |
2000 March |
| Hanseatic
League |
2001 May |
| Happy Birthday
song origin (reader question) |
2004 May |
| Harold -- death by arrow in eye? (enduring myth) |
2005 March |
| Hastings -- Battle (1050-1099 timeline) |
2005 September |
| Hat -- Derby |
2006 January |
| Hawaii's
conquest |
2003 July |
| Hearing Aids
(trivia) |
2004 September |
| Hearses |
2003 May |
| Hell-fire club |
2005 September |
| Heredity Laws'
discovery (1860s timeline) |
2001 July |
| Highwaymen |
2003 November |
| Hobbes’ Leviathan (1650s timeline) |
2007 March |
| Horses -- book extract |
2007 January |
| Hot Air
Balloons |
2004 March |
| Hot Toddy
recipe (trivia) |
2001 January |
| Hotels |
2001 July |
| Houses --
19th-century peasant homestead |
2004 May |
| Hudson Bay vs.
Hudson's Bay Company (reader question) |
2003 July |
| Hudson's Bay
Company |
2003 January |
| Huguenots |
2002 September |
| Hun invasion
of Europe (400s timeline) |
2004 January |
| Hundred Years' War |
2005 September |
| Hundred Years' War -- beginning (1324-49 timeline) |
2005 March |
| Hundred
Years' War -- end (1450s timeline) |
2004 July |
| Hurricane -- Galveston, Texas (1900) |
2007 March |
| Hurricanes |
2007 May |
| Huygens, Christiaan (1650s timeline) |
2007 March |
| Hymns |
2000 November |
| Ice cream
(trivia) |
2000 March |
| Ice Skating |
2001 September |
| Iconoclasm
(700-799 timeline) |
2001 September |
| Icyball |
2003 September |
| Immigration to
North America (1910s timeline) |
2000 May |
| Inca Empire -- Conquest |
2005 July |
| Inca Empire -- Conquest (1530s timeline) |
2006 January |
| Incunabula (Early printed books) |
2006 November |
| Indentured Servitude |
2005 March |
| Indian Wars
(America) (1880s timeline) |
2004 May |
| Industrial
revolution (1800-09 timeline) |
2000 November |
| Influenza Pandemic of 1918 |
2000 May |
| Ink -- writing
(trivia) |
2003 November |
| Inns and
Hotels |
2001 July |
| Inquisition -- Spanish |
2006 July |
| Insurance |
2000 September |
| Irish Potato
Famine (1840s timeline) |
2002 March |
| Irish
Rebellion (1790s timeline) |
2004 March |
| Iron Bridge
(1770s timeline) |
2001 March |
| Italian Wars'
beginnings (1490s timeline) |
2003 March |
| Italian Wars --
end (1550s timeline) |
2004 November |
| Italy's
unification (1860s timeline) |
2001 July |
| Ivan the
Terrible (1570s timeline) |
2002 November |
| Jack the
Ripper (1880s timeline) |
2004 May |
| Jack-o-lantern (trivia) |
2004 November |
| Jacobite
Rebellion (1710s timeline) |
2004 September |
| Jameson, Leander Starr |
2003 January |
| Jamestown -- early years (1600-1609 timeline) |
2005 May |
| Jazz Age (1920s timeline) |
2005 November |
| Jenkins' Ear
-- war (1730s timeline) |
2002 January |
| Jerkers
(religious denomination) (trivia) |
2001 May |
| Jews'
Expulsion -- Spain (1490s timeline) |
2003 March |
| Jones, Casey |
2006 July |
| Jousting -- medieval |
2004 May |
| Julius
Caesar's assassination (50BC-1BC timeline) |
2002 May |
| Ketchup |
2005 March |
| King George's War (1740s timeline) |
2005 January |
| King James Version of the Bible |
2003 March |
| King William's
War (1690s timeline) |
2000 September |
| Kitchen --
modern |
2001 July |
| Kitchens -- Colonial (book extract) |
2006 January |
| Kites (trivia) |
2004 March |
| Klondike gold
rush |
2004 September |
| Knights --
medieval |
2004 May |
| Knights
Templar |
2000 November |
| Korean War |
2001 September |
| Ku Klux Klan versus Radical Republicans |
2006 July |
| Lady Jane Grey (1550s timeline) |
2004 November |
| Land
measurements (trivia) |
1999 November |
| Landanum (trivia) |
2003 September |
| Language,
inappropriate (trivia) |
2000 September |
| Language of flowers (trivia) |
2005 May |
| Laundry-Maid's
duties (Beeton's Book of Household Management) |
1999 November |
| Laveau, Marie -- Voodoo Queen |
2005 July |
| Lawnmowers
(trivia) |
2004 May |
| Leaded glass
-- window tax evasion (reader question) |
2004 March |
| Leech --
medicinal |
2002 July |
| Leg calves, Artificial (trivia) |
2001 March |
| Leonid meteors
shower of 1833 |
2002 July |
| Lewis And
Clark Expedition (1800-09 timeline) |
2000 November |
| Libraries |
2001 November |
| Life --
merchant ships -- 19th century |
2004 March |
| Life during
War of 1812 |
2003 September |
| Life In An
English Castle |
2003 November |
| Life in a Virginia village in the 1830s |
2005 January |
| Life on a
passenger ship in the Days of Sail |
2005 January |
| Life on a
Warship In the Days of Sail |
2003 November |
| Life on the homefront in WWI |
2006 September |
| Life-car
(lifeboat) (trivia) |
2004 July |
| Lightbulbs (trivia) |
2006 May |
| Lighthouses |
2000 July |
| Lightships
(sidebar) |
2002 September |
| Lind, James
(scurvy) |
2001 July |
| Lind, Jenny |
2006 November |
| Lindbergh's transatlantic flight (1920s timeline) |
2005 November |
| Lindisfarne
(700-799 timeline) |
2001 September |
| Liquor -- distilled |
2005 January |
| Lisbon
earthquake (1750s timeline) |
1999 November |
| Loch Ness monster |
2005 September |
| Locks -- doors |
2002 September |
| Locks -- doors
(trivia) |
2000 January |
| London Bridge |
2005 November |
| Longbow |
1999 November |
| Louis XVIII of
France (1820s timeline) |
2000 March |
| Louis XVIV (1660s timeline) |
2006 May |
| Louisiana
claim (1680s timeline) |
2003 July |
| Louisiana
Purchase survey (1815) |
2004 September |
| Loyalists (1780s timeline) |
2007 May |
| Lunatic
Asylums |
2000 July |
| Macbeth (king) (1050-1099 timeline) |
2005 September |
| Magazines |
2001 September |
| Magna Carta
(1200-24 timeline) |
2003 September |
| Maids' life in
the 19th century |
2003 March |
| Maine in
Atlantic Time Zone (reader question) |
2004 March |
| Malt (trivia) |
2002 September |
| Malta -- siege (1560s timeline) |
2006 September |
| Marbles |
2005 January |
| Marconi,
Guglielmo (1900-09 timeline) |
2002 July |
| Margarine
(trivia) |
2000 May |
| Maroons
(Escaped slaves) (trivia) |
2002 January |
| Marshal, William (1150-99 timeline) |
2006 March |
| Marshmallows |
2005 May |
| Martian canals -- belief |
2005 May |
| Mary Queen of Scots
(1560s timeline) |
2006 September |
| Mason jars
(trivia) |
2003 September |
| Matches
(trivia) |
2002 September |
| Matreshka
(Russian nesting dolls) (trivia) |
2000 November |
| May Day |
2007 May |
| Mazes -- hedge
(trivia) |
2001 September |
| Mead (trivia) |
2002 March |
| meals' times |
2001 November |
| Mesmer, Franz
-- mesmerism (reader question) |
2004 January |
| Mickey Mouse (1920s timeline) |
2005 November |
| Microscope |
2005 September |
| Midwifery |
2000 March |
| Midwives --
colonial |
2001 September |
| Milk |
2002 July |
| Milk chocolate
(trivia) |
2000 November |
| Mining -- late
19th century |
2004 May |
| Ministry of
All Talents (1800-09 timeline) |
2000 November |
| Mirrors
(trivia) |
2001 May |
| Missions of the American
Southwest |
2002 November |
| Missouri
Compromise (1820s timeline) |
2000 March |
| Monocle (trivia) |
2005 September |
| Monasteries -- dissolution -- England (1530s timeline) |
2006 January |
| Money |
2001 July |
| Money, English
(trivia) |
2000 May |
| More, Thomas (1530s timeline) |
2006 May |
| Mother's Day
(trivia) |
2005 May |
| Motion pictures (1890s timeline) |
2006 November |
| Mount Rushmore |
2006 November |
| Moveable type
-- Chinese (reader question) |
2004 July |
| Mulled wine
recipe (trivia) |
2001 January |
| Mummery |
2003 November |
| Mummies --
medicine (trivia) |
2004 September |
| Mustard
(trivia) |
2003 May |
| Nails (trivia) |
2000 May |
| Name changes at Ellis Island? (enduring myth) |
2005 May |
| Nao de China
(Spanish route to the East) |
2004 January |
| Napoleon --
100 Days (1810s timeline) |
2003 January |
| Napoleon at
his Height (1800-09 timeline) |
2000 November |
| Napoleonic
Wars -- Early (1790s timeline) |
2004 March |
| Natchez Trace |
2000 July |
| National Road |
1999 November |
| Naval stores industry |
2006 May |
| Navigation |
2001 November |
| Neckties
(trivia) |
2003 July |
| Netherlands' revolt (1570s timeline) |
2002 November |
| New Netherland
(1640s timeline) |
2003 November |
| New York --
costs in 1886 |
2000 July |
| New York
Society in the 1860s (Harper's New Monthly Magazine) |
2002 May |
| News transmission |
2001 September |
| Newsboys |
2003 November |
| Newspapers |
2000 May |
| Niagara Falls -- daredevils |
2005 March |
| Nickelodeons
(sidebar) |
2004 January |
| Nightingale,
Florence (sidebar) |
2000 January |
| Northwest
Passage |
2001 May |
| Northwest
Rebellion (1880s timeline) |
2004 May |
| Nose Jobs |
2003 July |
| Nostradamus (1550s timeline) |
2004 November |
| Novi Orbis'
colonization (1570s timeline) |
2002 November |
| Nurses --
military |
2004 September |
| Ocean travel -- golden age |
2007 January |
| Offa's Dyke
(700-799 timeline) |
2001 September |
| Office Life
Before 1920 |
2001 March |
| Office staff
practices, Victorian (trivia) |
2002 March |
| Olive oil
(trivia) |
2003 January |
| Olympics -- first modern (1890s timeline) |
2006 November |
| Olympic Games
(ancient) |
2002 March |
| Olympic Games
(modern) |
2004 July |
| Omnibuses
(trivia) |
1999 November |
| Opium trade in
China (1840s timeline) |
2002 March |
| Opium Wars --
letter that began it |
2001 July |
| Oregon Trail |
2000 March |
| Pablum (trivia) |
2006 March |
| Palliser expedition |
2007 January |
| Panama Canal |
2000 November |
| Panama Canal -- French attempt |
2007 May |
| Pancho Vila
(1910s timeline) |
2000 May |
| Papacy at Avignon (1324-49 timeline) |
2005 March |
| Paper |
2000 November |
| Paperclips
(trivia) |
2004 September |
| Parachutes
(trivia) |
2005 January |
| Passenger airships |
2002 March |
| Passenger
pigeons (trivia) |
2003 March |
| Paston Letters (1460s timeline) |
2006 July |
| Patents |
2002 November |
| Patent Medicines |
2005 May |
| Peanut butter
(trivia) |
2003 January |
| Pearls
(trivia) |
2002 September |
| Peller murder
(Caught by the cable) (trivia) |
1999 November |
| Pencils (trivia) |
2005 July |
| Penny Post
(1840s timeline) |
2002 March |
| Pepper
(trivia) |
1999 November |
| Pepys, Samuel
(1660s timeline) |
2006 May |
| Persecution of Jews (1275-1299 timeline) |
2007 January |
| Persian Throne
(1730s timeline) |
2002 January |
| Peter the Great's reforms
(1720s timeline) |
2003 May |
| Pharmacies |
2006 January |
| Phonographs |
2004 May |
| Photographs
(1820s timeline) |
2000 March |
| Photography |
2000 September |
| Photography (1830s timeline) |
2005 July |
| Phrenology |
2006 September |
| Physicians -- Early North American |
2006 May |
| Pi (3.14.) |
2004 January |
| Pianos |
2003 May |
| Picnics |
2004 September |
| Pie timeline
(trivia) |
2000 November |
| Pigeons as
messengers in wartime |
2001 March |
| Piggy banks
(trivia) |
2004 September |
| Pikes Peak Gold Rush |
2005 January |
| Pilgrim badges |
2005 November |
| Piltdown Man |
2003 November |
| Pinchbeck
(trivia) |
2002 January |
| Pinkerton, Allan |
2006 January |
| Piracy's Golden Age ends
(1720s timeline) |
2003 May |
| Plains of Abraham -- Battle |
2006 January |
| Platinum |
2007 March |
| Player piano (trivia) |
2005 November |
| Plows (trivia) |
2000 November |
| Plywood (Trivia) |
2007 March |
| Pocahontas (1600-1609 timeline) |
2005 May |
| Pocket soup
(trivia) |
2004 September |
| Pockets
(trivia) |
2002 March |
| Poland's first
partition (1770s timeline) |
2001 March |
| Police |
2002 March |
| Poliomyelitis |
2000 September |
| Political
mascots (US) (trivia) |
2001 March |
| Polo |
2006 July |
| Polo, Marco -- travels -- myth? (1275-1299 timeline) |
2007 January |
| Polo, Marco -- travels (1275-1299 timeline) |
2007 January |
| Polygraph (trivia) |
2005 November |
| Pompadour,
Madame de (1750s timeline) |
1999 November |
| Pony Express
(1860s timeline) |
2001 July |
| Pony Express |
2004 November |
| Poor Richard's
Almanac |
2000 November |
| Poorhouse in
America |
2003 September |
| Pop! Goes the
Weasel song -- origins (reader question) |
2004 September |
| Pope Joan |
2002 November |
| Porcelain --
European |
2004 September |
| Postage stamps |
2004 May |
| Postage stamps
(trivia) |
2001 January |
| Postcards |
2002 September |
| Potato chips (trivia) |
2007 May |
| Potatoes |
2000 January |
| Pott,
Perciavall (surgeon) |
2003 January |
| Pragmatic Sanction (1720s
timeline) |
2003 May |
| Prairie
pastimes |
2002 September |
| Pre-Columbian gold |
2005 September |
| Premature
burial |
2001 March |
| Pretzels |
2005 September |
| Prices and
Wages In England (1750s timeline) |
1999 November |
| Priest holes
(trivia) |
2002 May |
| Primrose and Benjamin Disraeli |
2007 May |
| Privateers of
the Caribbean |
2000 November |
| Privies |
2000 May |
| Profanity |
2003 November |
| Prohibition (1920s timeline) |
2005 November |
| Protestant
Reformation's beginnings (1520s timeline) |
2001 May |
| Punch (drink) |
2004 July |
| Punched Cards |
2003 November |
| Punitive Expedition |
2003 May |
| Purple Heart
Medal (trivia) |
2003 May |
| Pyramidiocy |
2007 March |
| Quaker Colony
(1680s timeline) |
2003 July |
| Quantrill's
Raiders |
2002 May |
| Question Marks
(trivia) |
2003 July |
| Quill pens
(trivia) |
2000 November |
| Quinine
(trivia) |
2003 November |
| Rabies |
2004 November |
| Radar (Trivia) |
2007 March |
| Radical Republicans versus the Ku Klux Klan |
2006 July |
| Radio -- early days (Book extract) |
2007 March |
| Radio
Newspapers |
2003 November |
| Radio Station
-- first (KDKA) |
1999 November |
| Railways
(1820s timeline) |
2000 March |
| Razors
(trivia) |
2002 November |
| Reaching the
South Pole (1910s timeline) |
2000 May |
| Rebellions of Upper and Lower Canada (1830s timeline) |
2005 July |
| Reconquista |
2004 January |
| Red River Rebellion |
2003 July |
| Reform Act of 1832 (1830s timeline) |
2005 July |
| Refrigeration |
2000 March |
| Regency
England (1810s timeline) |
2003 January |
| Regnans in
Excelsis (1570s timeline) |
2002 November |
| Religious Peace of Augsburg (1550s timeline) |
2004 November |
| Reporters -- 19th-century female stunt |
2006 July |
| Restoration (1660s timeline) |
2006 May |
| Revolutions of 1830 (1830s timeline) |
2005 July |
| Richard I of England |
2005 May |
| Rifle |
2000 January |
| River
steamboats |
2003 July |
| Roads --
19th-century |
2006 September |
| Roanoke --
lost colony |
2004 March |
| Roller
Coasters |
2002 September |
| Roller-skating |
2002 March |
| Roman Army |
2006 January |
| Roman daily
life (50BC-1BC timeline) |
2002 May |
| Roman Empire,
Western -- Fall (400s timeline) |
2004 January |
| Roman public baths |
2001 January |
| Rome's Sack
(1520s timeline) |
2001 May |
| Rorke's Drift
(1870s timeline) |
2000 July |
| Roses -- war
-- beginning (1450s timeline) |
2004 July |
| Rosetta Stone
(1820s timeline) |
2000 March |
| Royal Canadian Mounted
Police (sidebar) |
2002 March |
| Royal
Society (1660s timeline) |
2006 May |
| Royal
Society's early history |
2000 November |
| Ruffs -- neck
(trivia) |
2002 November |
| Russia's
Bloody Sunday (1900-09 timeline) |
2002 July |
| Russian
America (Alaska) |
2003 January |
| Russia's
invasion (1810s timeline) |
2003 January |
| Russo-Japanese
War |
2002 July |
| Saffron |
2000 May |
| Salem Witch
Trails (1690s timeline) |
2000 September |
| Saloons -- 19th century |
2005 September |
| Salt |
2004 March |
| Salvation
Army (reader question) |
2004 September |
| San Francisco
earthquake (1900-09 timeline) |
2002 July |
| San Jacinto -- battle |
2006 September |
| Sanitary napkins (trivia) |
2005 September |
| Sausages
(trivia) |
2002 November |
| Savonarola
(1490s timeline) |
2003 March |
| Scents |
2006 May |
| Schism of 1054 (1050-1099 timeline) |
2005 September |
| Schoolhouses
-- one-room |
2002 January |
| Scopes Monkey Trial |
2006 July |
| Scotland (1275-1299 timeline) |
2007 January |
| Scottish Crown (1324-49 timeline) |
2005 March |
| Scouting |
2004 July |
| Scriptoriums
-- medieval |
2004 May |
| Scrofula
(trivia) |
2001 July |
| Sea serpents |
2002 January |
| Second Boer
War (1900-09 timeline) |
2002 July |
| Security coffins (trivia) |
2006 November |
| Sedan chairs
(trivia) |
2001 November |
| Seigneurial System |
2007 May |
| Servants -- Life of Domestic Servants |
2005 July |
| Settlement
houses |
2004 May |
| Seven Years'
War (1750s timeline) |
1999 November |
| Sewage
disposal (Paris and London) |
2002 July |
| Sewing
machines (trivia) |
2000 March |
| Shakers |
2000 September |
| Shakespeare, William (1600-1609 timeline) |
2005 May |
| Ship
figureheads (trivia) |
2000 September |
| Ships --
merchant -- 19th century -- life |
2004 March |
| Shoes,
Medieval (trivia) |
2001 March |
| Shorthand |
2006 January |
| Sideburns
(trivia) |
2001 May |
| Siege of Malta (1560s timeline) |
2006 September |
| Silent movies |
2004 January |
| Silk -- America |
2005 March |
| Silk Route |
2003 September |
| Silver
dollars |
2004 July |
| Skittles
(trivia) |
2001 July |
| Skyscrapers |
2002 May |
| Slavery
(1800-09 timeline) |
2000 November |
| Slavery
-- Abolition of Slavery in the British Empire (1830s timeline) |
2005 July |
| Slavery
-- Somerset's freeing in 1772 (book extract) |
2005 November |
| Slide rules (trivia) |
2005 July |
| Slot machines
(trivia) |
2002 September |
| Smallpox |
2002 March |
| Smithson Will
(1820s timeline) |
2000 March |
| Snuff (trivia) |
2001 November |
| Soap |
2005 May |
| Soap Making
(sidebar) |
2002 November |
| Soccer |
2004 March |
| Soft Drinks |
2002 July |
| Solution to
Longitude at sea |
2000 March |
| South Sea
Bubble |
2002 March |
| South Sea Bubble (1720s timeline) |
2003 May |
| Spam
|
2005 July |
| Spanish-American War (1890s timeline) |
2006 November |
| Spanish Armada
(1580s timeline) |
2001 November |
| Spanish
Empire's Fall (1810s timeline) |
2003 January |
| Spanish route
to the East -- Nao de China |
2004 January |
| Spanish
Succession -- war (1700-09 timeline) |
2002 September |
| Spanish
Succession -- war (1710s timeline) |
2004 September |
| Spectator journal |
2001 November |
| Sports popular |
2000 March |
| St.
Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1570s timeline) |
2002 November |
| St. Dominic
and the Dominican Order (1200-24 timeline) |
2003 September |
| St. Francis of
Assisi and Franciscan Order (1200-24 timeline) |
2003 September |
| St. Louis
World's Fair (1904) |
2003 July |
| St. Valentine's Day (trivia) |
2006 March |
| Stagecoaches |
2003 March |
| Stained glass
(trivia) |
2002 January |
| Standard Time
(trivia) |
2003 July |
| Standing Bear trial |
2007 Janaury |
| Starlings
(trivia) |
20053 March |
| Statute of
Artificers (1563) (trivia) |
1999 November |
| Steam Engine
(1690s timeline) |
2000 September |
| Stereoscopes (trivia) |
2004 March |
| Stethoscope |
2004 July |
| Stirrup |
2000 July |
| Stock
Exchanges |
2001 September |
| Stock Market Crash of 1929 (1920s timeline) |
2005 November |
| Stone of Scone (trivia) |
2004 November |
| Street
Addresses (trivia) |
2004 January |
| Submarines and submersibles |
2005 January |
| Subways |
2001 March |
| Suez Canal |
2000 March |
| Sugar |
2004 March |
| Sultana -- maritime disaster |
2006 March |
| Supplement to
the Hartford Courant Newspaper (11 July 1846) |
1999 November |
| Sweden's defeat (1720s timeline) |
2003 May |
| Sweets,
old-fashioned - recipe (trivia) |
2002 January |
| Swiss Army Knives |
2005 May |
| Syphilis |
2003 September |
| Tarot cards
(trivia) |
2001 March |
| Tartans
(trivia) |
2002 March |
| Tattoos |
2005 July |
| Taxation
(1000AD timeline) |
2000 January |
| Taxes |
2001 July |
| Tea |
2001 March |
| Teapots
(trivia) |
2003 March |
| Telegraph |
2003 March |
| Telegraph and
telephone |
2000 May |
| Telephone --
early impact |
2004 September |
| Telephones -- public (Trivia) |
2007 March |
| Television --
early years |
2006 March |
| Texas -- Republic -- Life |
2005 March |
| Texas War of Independence (1830s timeline) |
2005 July |
| Thermometer
(trivia) |
2002 September |
| Thimbles
(trivia) |
2002 May |
| Thirty Years'
War (1640s timeline) |
2003 November |
| Thompson, Benjamin |
2001 July |
| Three-cent
piece (US coin) (trivia) |
2002 September |
| Time Capsules |
2005 May |
| Times of Trouble -- Russia (1600-1609 timeline) |
2005 May |
| Timekeeping to
1650 (trivia) |
2000 January |
| Tobacco
(trivia) |
2000 March |
| Tobacco Trade |
2001 September |
| Tom and Jerry
(original 19th-century cartoons) |
2003 September |
| Tomatoes
(trivia) |
1999 November |
| Tons (trivia) |
2000 January |
| Toothache cure |
2005 May |
| Tooth powder
recipe (trivia) |
2002 January |
| Toothbrushes
(trivia) |
2000 March |
| Torture and
Capital Punishment |
2002 May |
| Totem poles
(trivia) |
2002 July |
| Tower of London |
2001 May |
| Trade in the
1200s |
1999 November |
| Trafalgar -- Battle |
2005 November |
| Train travel -- Victorian |
2005 July |
| Treadmills |
2006 November |
| Treaty of
Tordessilas (1490s timeline) |
2003 March |
| Trenchers
(trivia) |
2001 July |
| Trepanning |
2005 January |
| Trial by
Combat |
2006 September |
| Trial by
Ordeal |
2001 January |
| Triangle Fire (1911) |
2005 May |
| Triangle Trade
(1750s timeline) |
1999 November |
| Trolley |
2002 January |
| Troubadours |
2007 May |
| Trouvères |
2007 May |
| Tulip mania
(1600s Holland) (trivia) |
2001 January |
| Turkeys (trivia) |
2005 January |
| Tussand,
Madame (trivia) |
2002 November |
| Type --
moveable (trivia) |
2001 September |
| Typewriter |
2004 May |
| Typhoid |
2001 March |
| Umbrellas
(trivia) |
2002 May |
| Underground
Railroad |
2000 September |
| Underwear (reader question) |
2004 September |
| Union Jack
flag (trivia) |
2003 March |
| United
Colonies of New England (1640s timeline) |
2003 November |
| United Kingdom
of Great Britain -- Creation (1700-09 timeline) |
2002 September |
| Universities |
2001 May |
| US Army
officers' wives on the frontier |
2000 January |
| US Cavalry |
2000 January |
| US Civil War -
causes (1860s timeline) |
2001 July |
| US Civil War
songs |
2004 July |
| US Civil War's
affects on rural Arkansas families |
2002 January |
| US Election of
1800 |
2002 January |
| US -- from 13 colonies to the United States |
2006 November |
| US Railroads
in the 1870s |
2002 March |
| Vacuums
(trivia) |
2003 January |
| Vampires -- New England -- 18th and 19th centuries |
2006 July |
| Vending machines (trivia) |
2006 September |
| Veterinarians |
2003 January |
| Victoria
Cross (trivia) |
2004 September |
| Victoria's diamond jubilee (1890s timeline) |
2006 November |
| Vidocq, Eugene-Francois |
2006 May |
| Vienna's
second siege (1680s timeline) |
2003 July |
| Viking Raids |
2003 May |
| Vikings
(1000AD timeline) |
2000 January |
| Vinegar
(trivia) |
2001 January |
| Vlad the Impaler (1460s timeline) |
2006 July |
| Volcanoes |
2001 November |
| Voltaire
(1730s timeline) |
2002 January |
| Wallpaper |
2001 November |
| Walshingham, Francis |
2005 November |
| Waltz |
2006 March |
| War --
Anglo-Boer -- First (1880s timeline) |
2004 May |
| War --
Banana (Central America) |
2006 January |
| War --
Franco-Prussian (1870s timeline) |
2000 July |
| War -- Great
Northern (1700-09 timeline) |
2002 September |
| War -- Hundred Years
-- beginning (1324-49 timeline) |
2005 March |
| War -- Hundred Years
-- end (1450s timeline) |
2004 July |
| War -- Hundred Years war |
2005 September |
| War -- Indian
(America) (1880s timeline) |
2004 May |
| War -- Italian -- (1550s timeline) |
2004 November |
| War -- King George's (1740s
timeline) |
2005 January |
| War -- King William (1690s
timeline) |
2000 September |
| War -- Korean |
2001 September |
| War --
Napoleonic -- Early (1790s timeline) |
2004 March |
| War -- Opium
-- letter that began it |
2001 July |
| War -- Russo-Japanese |
2002 July |
| War -- Second
Anglo-Dutch (1660s timeline) |
2006 May |
| War -- Second
Boer (1900-09 timeline) |
2002 July |
| War -- Seven
Years (1750s timeline) |
1999 November |
| War -- Texas War of Independence (1830s timeline) |
2005 July |
| War -- Thirty
Years (1640s timeline) |
2003 November |
| War -- US
Civil - causes (1860s timeline) |
2001 July |
| War of 1812 --
life during |
2003 September |
| War of 1812
(1810s timeline) |
2003 January |
| War of
Jenkins' Ear (1730s timeline) |
2002 January |
| War of
Spanish Succession (1710s timeline) |
2004 September |
| War of the Austrian Succession (1740s timeline) |
2005 January |
| War of the
Grand Alliance (1680s timeline) |
2003 July |
| War Of The
Spanish Succession (1700-09 timeline) |
2002 September |
| Warwick the Kingmaker
(1460s timeline) |
2006 July |
| Wars -- Balkan
(1910s timeline) |
2000 May |
| Wars -- Italian --
beginning (1490s timeline) |
2003 March |
| Wars of the Roses -- beginning (1450s
timeline) |
2004 July |
| Warship --
life on a Warship in the Days of Sail |
2003 November |
| Washington DC
(1800-09 timeline) |
2000 November |
| Washington Naval Treaty
(1920s timeline) |
2005 November |
| Weathervanes
(trivia) |
2001 September |
| Webster, John White -- trial |
2007 May |
| Wedding bands
(trivia) |
2000 September |
| Wellington,
Duke of (1820s timeline) |
2000 March |
| Whaling |
2001 January |
| Whistles (trivia) |
2004 November |
| Whitney, Eli |
2000 July |
| Wigs |
2000 September |
| Wild West? (book extract) |
2005 September |
| Wilde, Oscar (1890s timeline) |
2006 November |
| Windmills |
2003 March |
| Window screens (trivia) |
2005 March |
| Window tax
evasion -- leaded glass (reader question) |
2004 March |
| Windows,
bricked-up (England) (trivia) |
2002 March |
| Wine |
2002 May |
| Wine bottles (trivia) |
2007 January |
| Witch Trial -- Triora (1587) |
2006 May |
| Wolsey, Thomas
(1520s timeline) |
2001 May |
| Women in
Baseball |
2003 March |
| Women's
hairstyles (from 1800 onwards) |
2002 January |
| Women's right
to vote |
2000 July |
| Working Women
in New York (Harpers Magazine
extract from 1880) |
2000 November |
| Wounded Knee (1890s timeline) |
2006 November |
| Wright
Brothers' first flight |
2003 January |
| Writing Ink
(trivia) |
2003 November |
| WWI (1910s
timeline) |
2000 May |
| X-rays
(trivia) |
2004 July |
| Yellow Fever |
2003 March |
| Zenger, John Paul -- trial of |
2006 January |
| Zippers
(trivia) |
2001 March |
| Zoos |
2002 November |
| Zwingli,
Ulrich (1520s timeline) |
2001 May |
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