How did the American frontiersman survive the wilderness? The frontiersmen are one of the images usually associated with early American exploration, with their fur hats and flintlock muskets, trekking through the wilderness looking for new lands to settle and mineral...
How to survive a nuclear attack in the UK . Surviving a nuclear attack would depend entirely on where you were at the time of the blast, and whether you got caught in it or not. Luckily, the chances of nuclear war are incredibly small, and even though many...
3 of the most disastrous voyages in the arctic From the 1700s onwards, the Arctic has been one of the most profitable places for ships to venture, and for many years was explored to find an alternative shipping route from Europe to the west coast of North America. The...
The hardest time period to survive in the British Isles The Pre-Human occupation of Britain As with every single country on earth, the British Isles have gone through many changes which have, at points, made daily life almost unbearable. The Victorian workhouses saw...
What was it like surviving an ancient winter Long before the invention of electric heating and synthetic materials to make clothes from, people had few options available to them when it came to how they would make it through the winter months. The way people survived...
Random Survival facts from history Long before the days of freeze-dried food and mobile phones, people had to use all kinds of crazy survival techniques just to make it through the day. Here’s a few Random Survival facts from history that most people today have...