On August 16, 1819, British cavalry charged into a crowd of 60,000-80,000 workers in a field in Manchester, England who had gathered to demand parliamentary representation and the repeal of laws makin
Cats, beer, unions–what does this story not have? I guess ketchup, but that wouldn’t make any sense. Anyway, this is a fascinating attempt to piece together this photo of a British strike
I think most of us who grew up in the 70s and 80s, British or American, understand all too well the brutalist playground with its right angles, ugly architecture, and hard, hard surfaces. These exampl
Exciting news on the dead horse front, as intact 2000 year old horse skeleton found in British archaeological dig.
Huh. Imagine if CNN or other American networks followed the path of the BBC and had directives to stop bringing cranks on the air to present absurd and scientifically bogus arguments that human-caused
Good stuff here on shaving and masculinity in Gilded Age Britain. In an era when shaving could be a real health risk, crazy beards made sense. The situation, both in its gendered and public health fac
These drawings of all your varieties of 18th century drunk British women pretty much describes the average Friday night of your typical LGM reader writer. I relate most to the woman in glasses drunken
Based upon yesterday’s events, let me turn it over to Special LGM Monarchy Correspondent Thomas Paine: But it is not so much the absurdity as the evil of hereditary succession which concerns man