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Oct 13, 202410 min read

Exploring the Dark Side of the High Seas: Pirate Keelhauling - A Dreaded Pirate Punishment

A pirate keelhauling was “a severe punishment whereby the condemned man was dragged beneath the ship’s keel on a rope.

Oct 9, 20244 min read

Was William Shakespeare's Father John Shakespeare a Crook

One must ask themselves how did Shakespeare amass such a fortune by the time William was a young adult?

Oct 3, 20245 min read

Uncovering Ancient Birth Control Methods: from Crocodile Dung to Bloodletting

Uncovering Ancient Birth Control Methods: From Crocodile Dung to Bloodletting

Jun 20, 20235 min read

MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Featuring Australian novelist Paul Rushworth-Brown

MEET THE AUTHOR Podcast: LIVE - Featuring Australian novelist PAUL RUSHWORTH BROWN. Find out how Paul went from history nerd to...

Jan 11, 20238 min read

The Smuggling Gangs

Written by Helen Hollick and Edited by Paul Rushworth-Brown Fiction, movies and TV tend to portray the smugglers of the past as small...

Nov 21, 20229 min read

Christmas and Christmas Lights are not English

Christmas trees, Christmas lights and Santa Claus: none of what we now take for Christmas traditions are indigenous to old England. The...

Aug 28, 20224 min read

Author's latest novel - set in Haworth - is up for award

Author's latest novel 'Red Winter Journey' - set in Haworth - is up for award

Jul 13, 20223 min read

Author Paul Rushworth-Brown Features on Spillwords

May 4, 20222 min read

'Skulduggery' Chosen as One of the Best Books to Read in 2022

The books to read in 2022 contain stories of forbidden love revealing biographies and skulduggery https://www.theamericawatch.com/article...

Apr 2, 20224 min read

A New Case of the Bubonic Plague

Ring a Ring o’ Roses, A Pocket full of Posies, A- Tishoo! A- Tishoo! We all Fall Down Health authorities in China have identified a new...

Jul 4, 20212 min read

Skulduggery around Haworth and Keighley

Paul Rushworth-Brown is the author of three novels: Skulduggery - The bleak Pennine moors of Yorkshire; a beautiful, harsh place, close...

Sep 25, 20204 min read

Witchcraft in 17th Century Yorkshire

Of all the witch trials in York, Isabella Billington in 1648 was the only state sanctioned witch to be burnt at the stake in Yorkshire...