THG's Year in Review

In 1891, British humorist Jerome K. Jerome wrote that “Whenever five or six English-speaking people meet round a fire on Christmas Eve, they start telling each other ghost stories.”

A Busy Week

The story of the Navy’s reluctance to even admit to the risk from sharks, and their final rushed attempt at a solution, says much about naval priorities and thinking prior and during the war.

On July 24, 1304 King Edward I of England captured the last stronghold of resistance against English rule in Scotland, the formidable Stirling Castle. But he did not have to storm the castle to make the defenders surrender. He merely had to threaten them with perhaps the most terrifying siege engine in the era before gunpowder.

The history of Mangoes includes piracy, passion, paisley and a very unfortunate dentist.