Margaret Forbes

Amateur historian, pub enjoyer, grandma to 4

History

Victorian England And Its Obsession With The Occult

Victorian drawing rooms debated Darwin and hosted séances. Britain's industrial age was its occult age because science itself made the invisible real. If electricity existed unseen, why not spirits? Today, we live in the same world with UFO sightings, hidden forces, and AI superintelligence.

History

11:11 When The Guns Fell Silent

Boys of twelve drowned in gas at Ypres. Sixty thousand fell on the Somme's first day. They deserve remembrance through truth, not comfort—the rats, the rotting feet, the intimate horror of bayonet work. We dishonour the dead when we sanitize their sacrifice into something palatable.