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"published_at": "2011-01-07T12:10:40+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-c4f5-738e-8ef9-837fdee081a8", "title": "A Russian prince on a Wichita road gang", "url": "https://mikedashhistory.com/2010/12/31/a-russian-prince-on-a-wichita-road-gang/", "published_at": "2010-12-31T15:16:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-c4f5-738e-8ef9-837fdf98e71c", "title": "The Shogun’s reluctant ambassadors", "url": "https://mikedashhistory.com/2010/12/18/the-shoguns-reluctant-ambassadors/", "published_at": "2010-12-18T15:31:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-c4f5-738e-8ef9-837fdfc53f2e", "title": "Truth, beauty and Pancho Villa", "url": "https://mikedashhistory.com/2010/11/30/truth-beauty-and-pancho-villa/", "published_at": "2010-11-30T01:11:20+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-c4f5-738e-8ef9-837fe007483b", "title": "The loneliest shop in the world", "url": "https://mikedashhistory.com/2010/10/30/the-loneliest-shop-in-the-world-2/", "published_at": "2010-10-30T13:48:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-c4f5-738e-8ef9-837fe093c305", "title": "Erotic secrets of Lord Byron’s tomb", "url": "https://mikedashhistory.com/2010/10/16/erotic-secrets-of-lord-byrons-tomb/", "published_at": "2010-10-16T21:09:00+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbbd-c4f5-738e-8ef9-837fe1678351", "title": "Naked as nature intended? 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Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his astounding death car", "url": "https://mikedashhistory.com/2010/05/06/curses-archduke-franz-ferdinand-and-his-astounding-death-car/", "published_at": "2010-05-06T08:45:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0bbc2-4f9e-7349-b6a7-47fe054c9ab5", "title": "The loss of the Saladin and the search for Walter Powell MP", "url": "https://mikedashhistory.com/2010/04/18/the-loss-of-the-saladin-and-the-search-for-walter-powell-mp/", "published_at": "2010-04-18T10:40:46+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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2022

The Sin-Eaters (a preview)original ↗
8 Mar 2022

2021

The Twopenny Hangoveroriginal ↗
19 May 2021

2019

Ask Mikeoriginal ↗
18 Jan 2019

2016

Dreamtime voyagers: Aboriginal Australians in early modern Makassaroriginal ↗
31 Oct 2016
The bodies in the bogsoriginal ↗
4 Sept 2016
King, magician, general … slave: Eunus and the First Servile War against Romeoriginal ↗
16 Jul 2016
Sorcerers and soulstealers: hair-cutting panics in old Chinaoriginal ↗
30 May 2016

2015

The Breton Bluebeardoriginal ↗
28 Dec 2015
The longest prison sentences ever served: reduxoriginal ↗
17 Dec 2015
Final straggler: the Japanese soldier who outlasted Hiroo Onodaoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2015
Aqua Tofana: slow-poisoning and husband-killing in 17th century Italyoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2015
Slavery on the Steppes: Finnish children in the slave markets of medieval Crimeaoriginal ↗
15 Jan 2015

2014

America’s first highjackingoriginal ↗
30 Dec 2014
Queen Victoria’s £5: the strange tale of Turkish aid to Ireland during the Great Famineoriginal ↗
29 Dec 2014
The Fayum mummy portraitsoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2014
A little bit of background: The crucifixion of Prince Klaasoriginal ↗
16 Jun 2014
The last secret of the H.L. Hunleyoriginal ↗
10 May 2014
A little bit of background: Envoioriginal ↗
16 Mar 2014

2013

Stoney Jack and the Cheapside Hoardoriginal ↗
19 Aug 2013
Friedrich Engels’ Irish museoriginal ↗
2 Aug 2013
Islam’s medieval underworldoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2013
The octogenarian who took on the shogunsoriginal ↗
20 Jun 2013
The child murder that gave voodoo its bad nameoriginal ↗
25 May 2013
The blood eagleoriginal ↗
18 Mar 2013
The secret plot to rescue Napoleon by submarineoriginal ↗
9 Mar 2013
In the cave of the witchesoriginal ↗
19 Feb 2013
Lost in the Taigaoriginal ↗
28 Jan 2013
“My little soldier”original ↗
18 Jan 2013

2012

The crucifixion of Prince Klaas: Antigua’s disputed slave rebellion of 1736original ↗
28 Dec 2012
White gold: how salt made and unmade the Turks and Caicos Islandsoriginal ↗
20 Dec 2012
Fishmonger’s Hall: how William Crockford beggared the British aristocracyoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2012
A visit to the underworld: the unsolved mystery of the tunnels at Baiaoriginal ↗
1 Oct 2012
The Swedish Meteor: the blazing career and mysterious death of Charles XIIoriginal ↗
25 Sept 2012
Walking to utopiaoriginal ↗
30 Aug 2012
The demonization of Empress Wuoriginal ↗
11 Aug 2012
The worst job there has ever beenoriginal ↗
5 Jul 2012
The Villisca Axe Murders 100 years onoriginal ↗
8 Jun 2012
Run out of town on an ass: how Queen Victoria (allegedly) struck Bolivia off the maporiginal ↗
4 Jun 2012
Hitler and hot jazzoriginal ↗
17 May 2012
Khrushchev in water wings: on Mao, humiliation, and the origins of the Sino-Soviet splitoriginal ↗
4 May 2012
Closing the pigeon gaporiginal ↗
18 Apr 2012
Murder in the Potalaoriginal ↗
10 Apr 2012
On heroic self-sacrificeoriginal ↗
19 Mar 2012
The Blues versus the Greens: how circus factions nearly brought down the Byzantine Empireoriginal ↗
2 Mar 2012
Colonel Parker: murderer?original ↗
25 Feb 2012
The mysterious Mr. Zedzed, the wickedest man in the worldoriginal ↗
16 Feb 2012
The Monster of Glamisoriginal ↗
11 Feb 2012
Nice things to say about Attila the Hunoriginal ↗
3 Feb 2012
Alone against Antarcticaoriginal ↗
27 Jan 2012
The most terrible tunneloriginal ↗
10 Jan 2012

2011

The Christmas Truceoriginal ↗
24 Dec 2011
The great tea raceoriginal ↗
16 Dec 2011
China’s socialist emperororiginal ↗
9 Dec 2011
On hidden historyoriginal ↗
7 Dec 2011
Santa Claus Smithoriginal ↗
6 Dec 2011
The mystery of the five woundsoriginal ↗
19 Nov 2011
History heroes: Marc Blochoriginal ↗
10 Nov 2011
William Shakespeare: gangsteroriginal ↗
7 Nov 2011
“Above the Senior Wrangler”original ↗
31 Oct 2011
An ice cream waroriginal ↗
20 Oct 2011
The wizard of Mauritiusoriginal ↗
13 Oct 2011
In search of Queen Victoria’s voiceoriginal ↗
6 Oct 2011
Amazons: inside the King of Dahomey’s all-woman armyoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2011
Gavrilo Princip’s sandwichoriginal ↗
15 Sept 2011
Pablo Fanque’s fairoriginal ↗
8 Sept 2011
Inside the Great Pyramidoriginal ↗
1 Sept 2011
One man against tyranny: Georg Elser’s lone attempt to blow up Hitleroriginal ↗
18 Aug 2011
“Tamám Shud”original ↗
12 Aug 2011
The last of the Cornish packmenoriginal ↗
4 Aug 2011
The king of hard currencyoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2011
Three 1950s youths in a medieval plague villageoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2011
Moving on uporiginal ↗
20 Jul 2011
“Kipper und wipper”: rogue traders, rogue princes, rogue nuns and the German financial meltdown of 1621-23original ↗
18 Jul 2011
The Old Man of the Lakeoriginal ↗
9 May 2011
The strange tale of the Warsaw basiliskoriginal ↗
5 Apr 2011
“They don’t like it up ’em…” Revisiting the sordid deaths of Edmund Ironside, Edward II, Kenneth II and James I of Scotlandoriginal ↗
17 Mar 2011
Natives of the Red Dragonoriginal ↗
1 Mar 2011
An abandoned lifeboat at world’s endoriginal ↗
13 Feb 2011
Some experiments with severed headsoriginal ↗
25 Jan 2011
Hey, I won…original ↗
7 Jan 2011

2010

A Russian prince on a Wichita road gangoriginal ↗
31 Dec 2010
The Shogun’s reluctant ambassadorsoriginal ↗
18 Dec 2010
Truth, beauty and Pancho Villaoriginal ↗
30 Nov 2010
The loneliest shop in the worldoriginal ↗
30 Oct 2010
Erotic secrets of Lord Byron’s tomboriginal ↗
16 Oct 2010
Naked as nature intended? Catherine Crowe in Edinburgh, February 1854original ↗
27 Sept 2010
The Emperor’s electric chairoriginal ↗
9 Sept 2010
The chupatty movementoriginal ↗
7 Sept 2010
The miniature coffins found on Arthur’s Seatoriginal ↗
31 Aug 2010
Lord Dacre’s ghostoriginal ↗
18 Aug 2010
The Monster of Glamis: a first draftoriginal ↗
7 Aug 2010
The Grey Dog of Meobleoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2010
The longest prison sentences ever servedoriginal ↗
24 Jul 2010
The horrible history of the Ostrich Innoriginal ↗
19 Jul 2010
Wonderful, terrific and eccentric magazinesoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2010
A Scottish spinster at the Battle of Nechtanesmere, 685ADoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2010
Ghosts, witches, vampires, fairies and the law of murderoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2010
Emily Brontë: a fantasy-prone personalityoriginal ↗
15 May 2010
Curses! Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his astounding death caroriginal ↗
6 May 2010
The loss of the Saladin and the search for Walter Powell MPoriginal ↗
18 Apr 2010
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