History Obscura

The Peppermint Humbugs

Can you guess the extra-special ingredient? No, it's not love...
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The Utmost Island: Chapter Six

There's plague about in the estate. Whilst I avoid the deadly miasma, here's a lovely prerecorded chapter of The Utmost Island.
I don't suppose you'd spot your favourite host a cup of tea, by any chance? One needs to keep up their strength in times like these.
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Leeuwenhoek’s Animalcules

Would you believe reports of so-called "little animals" living in your drinking water?
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A Science Palace & Bizarre Death

This is the story of a very lucky, very intelligent, and sometimes quite foolish Renaissance Man--Tycho Brahe.
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The Tudors: Part Three

Everyone knows about his hard-headed, serial-marrying son, but what of the founder of the dynasty himself, Henry VII?
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Farewell, Good Cat

Here are a few brief kitty tales to soothe us all to sleep.
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The Tudors: Part Two

The War of the Roses and the Step-Tudor who was a Mad King.
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The Tudors: Part One

This epic tale begins in Wales, some 800 years ago...
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Lucy’s Bones

This is the story of our dearly departed mutual cousin...or, aunt?
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Cotard’s Delusion

Doctor Jules Cotard was the first physician to research and describe a specific type of psychosis in which patients believe they do not exist, or, that they are dead. These are collected stories of various patients from the last 200 years.
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