The Vintage News Jun 22, 2018 Alex .A During the winter season of 1995, one of the world’s most impressive advertising campaigns ever was launched. A fleet of Coca-Cola trucks bedecked with twinkling Christmas lights rolled across our television screens. The trucks in the very first Coca-Cola Christmas Caravan weren’t even real–it was just three custom-made full-size … Read more
The Vintage News Jun 4, 2018 Martin Chalakoski She was a well educated and pragmatic daughter of an impoverished Prussian prince who grew into the longest-ruling female leader of the Russian empire and one of the most celebrated Russian rulers of either gender. Under her reign, the empire was vastly expanded and grew in strength to … Read more
The Vintage News May 11, 2018 Nancy Bilyeau Photo:Andrew Smith / Medmenham Abbey / CC BY-SA 2.0 History does not record a single event of interest that took place within the abbey walls while Cistercian monks actually inhabited Medmenham between 1204 and 1536. It’s what happened to a woman around the time of its founding and … Read more
The Vintage News Mar 22, 2018 Stefan Andrews When people started using mechanical clocks during the 14th and 15th centuries, they were introducing a relatively new concept of counting the time. Mechanical clocks, like the one of Salisbury Cathedral, were game-changers, since before then people didn’t cut the day into 24 slices. There were the “temporal … Read more
The Vintage News Mar 22, 2018 Nikola Budanovic Little is known of the King of Denmark, Sweyn Forkbeard, today, but this Norse monarch was once the King of England as well, albeit for only five weeks, making the small town of Gainsborough in eastern England his capital. One reason for the mystery surrounding him is several … Read more
War History Online Feb 25, 2018 Andrew Knighton World War Two Munitions in production Close your eyes and imagine an act of wartime courage. What do you picture? A soldier carrying a comrade to safety? A captain buying his crew vital time to abandon ship? A pilot hurtling through the skies, intercepting the enemy’s deadly engines … Read more
War History Online Feb 25, 2018 Jack Knight If you think the tensions between Russia and United States have reached the heights of insanity now, you should invest some time to learn about the Cold War and your perception of hostility will change for good. Soon after the Second World War reached an abrupt end with … Read more
