Life as an early Arctic explorer The Arctic was one of the last places on earth to be explored, and during the “Age of Discovery” which began in the early 1500s, was also one of the most valuable. Thousands of people came to this previously unexplored area for many...
How did the Vikings survive in Iceland? The people known as the Vikings lived across several Scandinavian countries and led raids all along the coast of Western Europe. The ones that raided east mostly came from Norway and Denmark, but it wasn’t until the year 793 AD...
Life in Iron Age Scotland The Iron Age in the British Isles ran from about 800 BCE and ended in England in 43 AD when the Romans invaded, bringing with them their knowledge of how to make steel. Scotland was an exception though as the mighty Romans who conquered...
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...
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...
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