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Public Enemy No. 1 and The Lady In Red | historywithatwist
You may be familiar with Susan Hill’s ghost story, The Woman in Black, or with Wilkie Collins’s mystery, The Woman in White; in fact, there are many stories of ‘White Lady’ ghosts peppered all across the globe. But if black and white is a bit too monochromatic for your taste, there’s always The Lady, In…
The race to the ‘Promised Land’ | historywithatwist
They sat tensely in their wagons and buckboards, or on horseback, thousands of settlers reining in excitable, whinnying mounts whose hooves pawed the ground in anticipation, waiting for the moment when they could be unleashed into a madcap gallop that would vibrate the ground, sending up dust clouds on the plains that stretched before them.…
From Cobh to Boot Hill – the Bisbee Massacre’s Irish Bandit | historywithatwist
As Dan ‘Yorkie’ Kelly stood on the scaffold in the Wild West town of Tombstone in March of 1884, his thoughts must have strayed back to Queenstown (now Cobh), in Cork, from where he had set sail just three years earlier to make his fortune in America. But the closest 24-year-old Dan had come to…
Life After Death With McCurdy’s Mummy | historywithatwist
Elmer's mummified corpse proved a popular attraction; so popular, in fact, that there came a time when two men arrived to claim they were Elmer's relatives and took his body with them.... only to include it as part of a travelling circus of their own, to be displayed far and wide. And so Elmer's 'life'…
Murder, Lust, and The Land That Never Was… | historywithatwist
It’s 1914 and US Navy Ensign Fitzhugh Green is freezing, exhausted, and on foot in the frigid, icy wilderness of the Arctic, watching in frantic despair as his only companion, an Inuit hunter called Piugaattoq, climbs astride a dog sleigh and heads off into the distance. Green calls after him to come back, then fires a…
The Titans of Antarctica | historywithatwist
The Irish polar heroes who battled their way through certain death and into history It’s Easter 1916, April 24, and some desperate Irishmen are about to launch a bid for freedom against overwhelming odds, but this struggle doesn’t have Dublin’s General Post Office as a backdrop, nor the British Empire as the enemy. No, this…
Hang ‘Em High – Lady Betty, the Irish Executioner | historywithatwist
They say desperate times call for desperate measures, but you’d wonder how desperate things would have to be in order to do what Elizabeth Sugrue did to keep bread on the table. Elizabeth’s name may not now be famous enough to shake the very pillars of history, but back in her day, ‘Lady Betty’ as she was known certainly…
Putin, Parkinson’s, and History’s Ultimate Power Trip | historywithatwist
History repeating itself. That’s the phrase du jour; a way to try to understand what is happening in Ukraine. Enigmatic Putin, and the parallels with Hitler taking over the Sudetenland and all the invasions that followed on from that, reverberate like an echo from history. The past is repeating itself, but then it always does.…
Around the World in 44 Days with Denmark’s Boy Wonder | historywithatwist
How a globe-trotting teenager enthralled millions in 1928 The planet has become such a small place. Now, we can hold the world in the palm of our hand, scrolling on our smartphones from one country to the next while lounging on the sofa. Unfortunately, the more we open ourselves to the world on the internet,…
How Russia has used rape as a weapon of war | historywithatwist
First, a warning for those of a sensitive nature, there are some upsetting descriptions in the paragraphs ahead… “Russian soldiers loot, rape and kill. 10 y.o. girls with vaginal and rectal tears. Women with swastika shaped burns. Russia. Russian Men did this. And Russian mothers raised them. A nation of immoral criminals.” So tweeted Ukrainian…
Love Affair at Auschwitz | historywithatwist
Love means different things to different people. Circumstances shape it and turn people towards each other in the most unexpected of places. Sometimes it's fleeting, other times deeply felt. Yet, there are times when 'love' is a means to an end, a peculiar, complex thing that tests our very understanding of emotion. Sometimes, and for…
Getting Away With Murder at ‘Little Auschwitz’ | historywithatwist
Przemysłowa Street and the surrounding area in the Polish city of Lodz, is a narrow, tree-lined, grass-verged thoroughfare with low-rise, utilitarian, multi-coloured, apartment blocks. On a sunny day, though, it looks like it might be a pleasant enough place to stroll through, with the leaf-dappled shadows of the trees making patterns on the concrete paths.…