The London Beer Flood: The Bizarre 1814 Disaster That Drowned a London Slum in Beer
The London Beer Flood of 1814 killed eight people when a giant brewery vat burst, unleashing a tidal wave of porter through London’s deadliest slum.
1810s
Operations Plan: Argentina’s Secret Revolutionary Terror Document of 1810
The mysterious Operations Plan attributed to Mariano Moreno outlined brutal Jacobin-style tactics for Argentina’s revolution, but was it real?
Souvenir Hunting on the Battlefield of Waterloo: The Macabre Trade That Shocked Europe
Souvenir Hunting on the Battlefield of Waterloo turned into a ghoulish industry of fake relics, stolen teeth, and ground human bones.