The UK’s 10 most dangerous invasive plants and animals There isn’t a single country on earth that doesn’t have some kind of invasive plant or animal species, but there are a few small isolated islands that remain untouched. Unfortunately they will surely all...
Creative ways people survived the first world war There was a time during the early part of the 20th century when people in Britain only heard about war through the newspapers or radio, and it usually consisted of some distant battlefield on the other side of the...
The dangers of poisonous wild foods There was recently a story about a person in Australia who caused the deaths of four people by feeding them mushrooms. A woman named Ms. Patterson invited her former in-laws over for lunch, one of which also brought her sister and...
Earth’s last remaining hunter-gatherers Most of Earth’s population hasn’t been classed as hunter-gatherers for a very long time. In the British Isles, people had stopped living this way by the start of the Iron Age which started around 800 BCE and gave people...
How did the Irish survive the potato famine? Between 1845 and 1852, Ireland suffered a period known within the country as the Great Famine or Great Hunger but known to people outside Ireland as the Irish potato famine. During this time, around 1 million people lost...