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

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

In this grim epoch of unfathomable pestilence, when the Black Death descended across Europe, a chilling figure emerged from the: the plague doctor. Wearing a long, bizarre coat of waxed cloth and a distinctive mask constructed from leather, he emerged a symbol of both fear and illusory hope. These masks, regularly equipped with glass, were imagined