And don't forget about The Catfish Hotel, the first hotel in Shreveport. It opened in 1837 and a drawing of the establishment ...

Dogtrot houses were more than mere buildings. Dogtrot design itself was actually a primitive form of off-grid air ...

The 1800s saw three Reform Acts (1832, 1867 ... Download a partial transcription of these letters provided by Dr Paul Keenan (LSE International History). James Bronterre O’Brien was an Irish chartist ...

The poor of Britain received little help from the Government in the 1800s. The Poor Law of 1834 provided two types of help: Indoor relief – the workhouse, which was greatly feared. Outdoor ...

This text is designed to cover the history of Western medicine from Classical Antiquity to 1800. As one guiding thread it takes the system of medical ideas that, in large part, went back to the Greeks ...