tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54786406325469014402024-03-28T20:28:44.685-07:00localhistories.orgA history blog. Facts about history.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger944125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-11059772364481500392024-03-27T11:52:00.000-07:002024-03-27T11:52:50.168-07:00Alaska Earthquake<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">On 27 March 1964 (local time) Alaska was struck by an earthquake It measured 9.2 on the Richter Scale and killed 131 people. <a href="https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/events/alaska1964/1964pics.php" target="_blank">Earthquake Damage Pics from Earthquakes.usgs.gov</a> </span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-79081426972424258372024-03-27T06:19:00.000-07:002024-03-27T06:19:01.221-07:00Whitby<p><span style="font-size: large;"> My friend wrote a <a href="https://localhistories.org/a-history-of-whitby/" target="_blank">history of Whitby</a> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-28222798008051448892024-03-25T11:37:00.000-07:002024-03-25T11:37:20.303-07:00The Slave Trade Ends<p><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: large;">On 25 March 1807 Britain abolished the slave trade. (The first country to abolish it was Denmark in 1792).</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-28336583395081238892024-03-25T01:18:00.000-07:002024-03-25T01:18:20.853-07:00Hungover<p><span style="font-size: large;">You sometimes read that we say 'hungover' because drunk people slept hung over ropes. It's not true. That is not the origin of the term <a href="https://eu.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/10/23/fact-check-hungover-refers-aftereffects-not-sleeping-over-rope/3732337001/" target="_blank">hungover</a>. </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-48433500527321898132024-03-24T13:53:00.000-07:002024-03-24T13:53:18.984-07:00Tea Bag<p><span style="font-size: large;"> According to legend <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Thomas Sullivan invented the <a href="http://www.patentlyinteresting.com/history-of-the-tea-bag.html" target="_blank">tea bag</a> in 1908. But it seems that tea bags gradually developed and it's difficult to say who first invented them. </span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-63645872304686535392024-03-24T10:04:00.000-07:002024-03-24T10:04:24.533-07:00Women's Olympiad<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">The Women's Olympiad began on 24 March 1921. It was the first international <a href="https://localhistories.org/a-history-of-womens-sports/" target="_blank">women's sports</a> event.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-69515702223306373552024-03-22T03:26:00.000-07:002024-03-22T03:26:01.767-07:00Cathcold Tower, Southampton<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">During World War II an anti-aircraft gun was placed on Catchcold Tower in Southampton. It was the last time the Medieval walls played a part in the defence of the city.</span></p><p><span style="color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibW1KxijRDGvyZTNTuX3M5MqPO6BtvdXKNgfsttC8BPghnBnxrvoUNFx7VXOMNxicwexKmGtvlvyEcP7irtTJRYJbFO0SUTy4t4YywVS60gTSCmnJ6jVJJ4NpmOca7gfIERjJ8kQvQois3FlaNva2OeeO9A1j864R-7o2xOeyIh7vSlhKml7paD14ZFJo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="699" data-original-width="526" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEibW1KxijRDGvyZTNTuX3M5MqPO6BtvdXKNgfsttC8BPghnBnxrvoUNFx7VXOMNxicwexKmGtvlvyEcP7irtTJRYJbFO0SUTy4t4YywVS60gTSCmnJ6jVJJ4NpmOca7gfIERjJ8kQvQois3FlaNva2OeeO9A1j864R-7o2xOeyIh7vSlhKml7paD14ZFJo" width="181" /></a></div><br /><p></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-26472967175274895232024-03-20T03:48:00.000-07:002024-03-20T03:48:20.177-07:00Spring<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">It's Spring again. People once called it Lenten, which means lengthen because the days are growing longer. But in the 14th century, people called it springing time because the leaves on trees are springing out. By the 16th century, it was just called Spring. It's so nice to see nature coming back to life. 😎</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-1628283553662946512024-03-19T03:30:00.000-07:002024-03-19T03:30:50.128-07:00Tolpuddle Martyrs<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">On 19 March 1834, the Tolpuddle Martyrs were sentenced to 7 years transportation. They were convicted of making an illegal oath. They tried to form a trade union and they swore an oath of secrecy, which was then illegal and gave the authorities an excuse to arrest them.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-7497751816417915522024-03-15T03:05:00.000-07:002024-03-15T03:05:31.955-07:00Pictures of Frome<p><span style="font-size: large;"> I took some pictures of <a href="https://localhistories.org/my-pictures-of-frome/" target="_blank">Frome in Somerset</a> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-45272291215191950002024-03-14T14:55:00.000-07:002024-03-14T14:55:45.154-07:00History of Menstruation<p><span style="font-size: large;"> I wrote a <a href="https://localhistories.org/a-history-of-menstruation/" target="_blank">history of menstruation</a> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-3166587021344702072024-03-14T09:14:00.000-07:002024-03-14T09:14:36.507-07:00Red Letter Days<p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white;">W</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">hy do we say red-letter days? In the Middle Ages, saint's days were marked in red in calendars. People did not work on some saint's days, which were also called holy days. Our word holiday is derived from a holy day.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-44378589978062811862024-03-13T10:57:00.000-07:002024-03-13T10:57:37.335-07:00Diving Suit<p> I found an interesting video about the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VpUZLov0zk&t=335s" target="_blank">world's oldest diving suit</a> </p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-67875429943061923502024-03-13T01:54:00.000-07:002024-03-13T01:54:31.699-07:00Uranus<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">On 13 March 1781, William Herschel discovered the Planet Uranus, the first new planet discovered since Ancient Times. </span><a class="x1fey0fg xmper1u x1edh9d7" href="https://localhistories.org/a-history-of-the-outer-planets/"><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">https://localhistories.org/a-history-of-the-outer-planets/</span></a></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-83191473555751790062024-03-12T04:31:00.000-07:002024-03-12T04:31:15.451-07:00Let The Cat Out of The Bag<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why do we say let the cat out of the bag? This old saying is probably derived from the days when people who sold piglets in bags sometimes put a cat in the bag instead. If you let the cat out of the bag you exposed the trick. I have heard it said, on certain historical ships I could mention that it comes because a cat o'nine tails was kept in a bag. But the cat o'nine tails was not used by the English </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="animation-name: none !important; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">navy till the mid-17th century and the saying is certainly older than that. </span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-45596917189815315032024-03-01T01:22:00.000-08:002024-03-01T01:22:46.013-08:00Myths about witchcraft <p><span style="font-size: large;"> This is an interesting article about <a href="https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histories/eight-witchcraft-myths/" target="_blank">myths about witchcraft</a> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-34112242719065314292024-02-29T04:15:00.000-08:002024-02-29T04:15:15.835-08:00Blossom Alley<p><span style="font-size: large;"> I wrote about an <a href="https://localhistories.org/an-unsolved-murder-in-portsmouth-1923/" target="_blank">unsolved murder in Portsea</a>, Portsmouth in 1923 </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-59574293159404365152024-02-27T03:20:00.000-08:002024-02-27T03:22:55.929-08:00Gladys Moss<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"><a href="https://www.theargus.co.uk/news/14033507.blue-plaque-to-be-unveiled-for-sussexs-first-female-police-officer-gladys-moss/" target="_blank">Gladys Moss</a> was the first female police officer in Sussex, in 1919 </span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-67980861896979794612024-02-25T01:51:00.000-08:002024-02-25T01:51:12.477-08:00The End of Corporal Punishment<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">On 25 February 1982, in a case brought by two Scottish mothers, Grace Campbell and Jane Cosans Grace Campbell the European Court of Human Rights ruled that corporal punishment in schools if it was against the parent's wishes was a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">It was then an untenable situation that teachers could hit certain children but not others so in 1986 the British parliament voted to end corporal punishment in state schools. It became illegal </span><span style="animation-name: none !important; background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; transition-property: none !important; white-space: pre-wrap;"><a style="animation-name: none !important; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; transition-property: none !important;" tabindex="-1"></a></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">in 1987. Well done ladies.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-73157123440299192182024-02-24T13:34:00.000-08:002024-02-24T13:34:35.972-08:00Arangela Tarbotti<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Arangela Tarbotti was born on 24 February 1604. She was a famous writer who vigorously attacked the condition of women in the 17th century. We don't often hear about her today but in her own time she was highly respected and she corresponded with famous scholars in Europe.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-79870997074090597292024-02-21T01:07:00.000-08:002024-02-21T01:07:59.185-08:00Warrington<p><span style="font-size: large;"> I wrote a brief history of the town of <a href="https://localhistories.org/a-history-of-warrington/" target="_blank">Warrington</a> in Cheshire </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-87684810831124183412024-02-20T01:07:00.000-08:002024-02-20T01:07:37.871-08:00Wrexham<p><span style="font-size: large;"> I wrote a history of the Welsh town of <a href="https://localhistories.org/a-history-of-wrexham/" target="_blank">Wrexham</a> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-88265631968675374922024-02-18T01:06:00.000-08:002024-02-18T01:06:40.867-08:00The Well of Loneliness <p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Lesbianism has never been illegal in England. In 1921 an act to make it illegal was introduced into parliament but it was rejected by the House of Lords. But in 1928 a lesbian novel called The Well of Loneliness was banned in Britain on the grounds it was obscene. It was banned in Britain until 1959. In the USA in 1929 the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice tried to have the book banned but they lost the court case.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-33620279910398038452024-02-17T14:01:00.000-08:002024-02-17T14:01:57.162-08:00Quacksalver<p><span style="font-size: large;"> <span style="background-color: white; color: #050505; font-family: Roboto, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; white-space: pre-wrap;">Why do we call doctors quacks? A quacksalver was a man who sold potions or salves that he claimed could heal diseases. He 'quacked' or made a loud noise about his salves and potions.</span></span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5478640632546901440.post-61520946614019948652024-02-16T13:42:00.000-08:002024-02-16T13:42:02.086-08:00Stafford<p><span style="font-size: large;"> I wrote a history of the old <a href="https://localhistories.org/a-history-of-stafford/" target="_blank">English town of Stafford</a> </span></p>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0