Comfortable Corsets

 It's a myth that corsets were torture instruments that made it difficult to breathe and caused you to faint.

Honduras

 I wrote about the history of the Central American nation of Honduras 

Women in Anglo-Saxon England

 In Anglo-Saxon England, women had considerable rights and freedom (unless they were slaves! Both men and women were slaves). Married women could own and inherit property. Some women were landowners. If a man married a woman he had to give her either money or land. After they married it was her property to what she liked. She could sell it or leave it in her will to anyone she wished. 

HMS Warrior

 HMS Warrior Britain's first iron warship was launched on 29 December 1860. She is now a major tourist attraction in Portsmouth. Happy birthday.

Victorian myth

 Another myth about 19th century women: they were not allowed to raise their arms above their heads https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DHn0VOwYVQ 

Abbotsbury

 I wrote a brief history of the charming village of Abbotsbury 

The Bog

 In Britain, a cesspit was once called a bog. The toilet was the bog room. When people stopped using cesspits and had flushing toilets they kept calling the toilet room the bog room. Soon it shortened to bog. Apparently the Australian word dunny comes from an old English word meaning a store of dung. There is a lot more to the history of toilets than you might think.