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

In the year 1752, 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, implemented by many European nations before, finally took hold on these shores. This alteration was not merely a matter

In this grim epoch of ravaging pestilence, during the Black Death descended across Europe, a chilling apparition emerged from its: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, horrific coat of greased cloth and a unusual mask constructed from leather, they became a omen of both fear and fleeting hope. These masks, regularly bearing peepholes, were thought to