Aug 11, 2021
Looking at the man who was handed arguably the biggest hospital pass in history – the role of Adolf Hitler’s successor. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
Aug 11, 2021
A short account of the man who served as Lord Deputy of Ireland under Queen Mary Tudor and her sister Queen Elizabeth. Become a member of Turtle’s History Library to access all areas, €12/year...
Aug 11, 2021
THERE WAS AN OLD MAN CALLED EDWARD By Turtle Bunbury As he plunged his quill into the inkpot, Edward Lear exhaled contentedly. It might have taken him the best part of fifty years to complete the trip, but the best-selling English nonsense poet had finally made it to...
Aug 11, 2021
It’s not often that a funeral director buys everyone a drink, but this undertaker had his reasons. As the grateful and mostly Irish mourners supped upon free ale in an Essex pub that hot summer’s afternoon in 1783, the undertaker slipped out the back door. He made his...
Aug 11, 2021
‘The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it’. A short account of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (1694 – 1773), British statesman, man of letters and arguably...
