A Blast From The Past
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Oddities, striking characters and incidents, strange days... this is history with all the interesting bits left in, by the author of Batavia's Graveyard, Tulipomania and The First Family.
- By Mike Dash
- Based in United Kingdom
- First post on
Posts per year
Year starting | Posts |
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2015 | 3 |
2016 | 4 |
2017 | 0 |
2018 | 0 |
2019 | 1 |
2020 | 0 |
2021 | 1 |
2022 | 1 |
2023 | 0 |
2024 | 0 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
Many apologies to subscribers who received a notification of a new post earlier today. Unfortunately this was an error on my part. I was working on an upcoming essay and managed to hit the “publish” …
The image above shows a recreation of what is supposed to be a “twopenny hangover“. It’s a term increasingly commonly found on Google, and it purports to describe a type of cheap Victorian-era doss-house in …
For almost three years now, while my other responsibilities have prevented me from updating the main blog as I would wish to, I’ve been adding material to this site on a new page, “Ask Mike,” …