An illustration of the ‘Mary Rose’ in the Anthony Roll, a manuscript containing descriptions of all of the Tudor navy's warships in the 1540s. When Henry VIII became king in 1509, England was ...

Hard labour was a common punishment. The crank and the treadmill: Prisons often made prisoners do pointless tasks such as turn a crank up to 10,000 times a day.

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