This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Oddly Varied Wartime Curiosities Across Lands and Sciences
A miscellany notes gas workers uniforms in Manchester, wartime fundraising by Everton, coal dust bricks in Russia, Arctic water freezing, and area comparisons among continents. It also covers a doctor saving a diphtheria patient, white Malta buildings, Egypt’s wooden keys, watch beats, and British naval debt trends. Other items include Lloyds premiums, New York garbage removal, wartime taxes on royals, sea urchin teeth, and a tale of Brewster the rider. Also mentions a vellum Bible auction, teak shipbuilding, and a talking horse policy in cavalry. Lake Morat turns red every decade.