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

In the year 1751, a most striking 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, embraced by many European nations before, finally took hold on these shores. This alteration was not merely a matter of

In the grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, during the Black Death swept across Europe, a chilling specter emerged from its: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, bizarre coat of greased cloth and a distinctive mask designed from leather, it emerged a symbol of both fear and illusory hope. Their masks, regularly bearing eyes, were thought to filter