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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 13, 202410 min read
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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 9, 20244 min read
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Uncovering Ancient Birth Control Methods: from Crocodile Dung to Bloodletting
Uncovering Ancient Birth Control Methods: From Crocodile Dung to Bloodletting
Oct 3, 20245 min read
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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...
Jun 20, 20235 min read
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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...
Jan 11, 20238 min read
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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...
Nov 21, 20229 min read
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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
Aug 28, 20224 min read
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Author Paul Rushworth-Brown Features on Spillwords
Author Paul Rushworth-Brown Features on Spillwords
Jul 13, 20223 min read
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'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...
May 4, 20222 min read
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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...
Apr 2, 20224 min read
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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...
Jul 4, 20212 min read
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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...
Sep 25, 20204 min read
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