A lot of my blogs have been related to girls from my current city of Hull, UK. Since realizing this, I couldn’t go without writing about Lillian Bilocca, one of Hull’s most famous daughters. In the 1960s, thousands of men from...
I need to clarify something; I’m not a big gamer. I never played N64 with my dad at a young age, and I’ve never spent hours lost in World of Warcraft. But I do enjoy games, and especially, perhaps even more nerdy, I like watching people play games. When...
Warning: This post contains spoilers! My favourite film of all time is Guillermo del Toro’s Pan’s Labyrinth. If you haven’t seen it, I won’t ruin it for you – but needless...
Amy Johnson was a truly remarkable woman. There’s a trail of moths in celebration of her around her hometown of Kingston-upon-Hull at the moment. But why? Well, the trail and the Amy Johnson Festival are all to celebrate her life and her amazing...
Herring girls (or herring lasses) were groups of women who would travel the east coast of the United Kingdom from as far north as Aberdeen to as far south as Great Yarmouth, following herring as they migrated throughout the year. Herring, sometimes called...
