Alex A
Traveller, writer and history buff. You can usually find me in coffee shop somewhere in Europe.
Articles by Alex A:
Kolmanskop was once a thriving diamond mine, now is a ghost town swallowed by the Namib desert
These sad images show the consequences of “The Great San Francisco Earthquake” in 1906
Beautiful surviving examples of Package Designs from World War One …
Canary Girls- The poignant story of the Munitionettes and how the poisons of WWI turned them yellow
This dad bought a condemned property and transformed it into 1920’s General Store Museum …
The oldest living WWII veteran turned 110 this year
Bomb Sight website interactive maps shows every Nazi bomb dropped on London during the Blitz
10 everyday things that we didn’t know were invented by the Victorians
Johnny Cash was the first American to hear about Stalin’s death
The Man in the Iron mask still remains an unsolved mystery …
