Brad Smithfield
Brad Smithfield is one of the authors writing for The Vintage News
Articles by Brad Smithfield:
The mustache cup: The special tea cup used by the Victorian men to protect their mustache from getting dunked into their tea
Ruins of the Clifden Castle witness the first Gothic Revival building in Ireland
The Lisbon Earthquake in 1755: natural disaster or God’s punishment?
Madame d’Esperance: one of the most popular spiritualist frauds in 19th century
The story of Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” a theater fire caused by a flare gun
Teenage Proust asks for money for brothel in this amusing letter to his grandfather
Viking shieldmaidens – some say the warrior women did not exist
The Davenport brothers deceived audiences for ten years into believing they possessed supernatural powers, when all they did was a magic trick
Steamboat Arabia, which had been missing for 132 years, was found 45 feet under a field
My once in a lifetime trip to the Titanic – I won a competition on the History Channel
