Of mops and brooms, and more besides…
“All Mops and brooms” : to be intoxicated or half-drunk. Thought to come from the Mop Fairs held annually throughout the country since the Middle… Read More »Of mops and brooms, and more besides…
“All Mops and brooms” : to be intoxicated or half-drunk. Thought to come from the Mop Fairs held annually throughout the country since the Middle… Read More »Of mops and brooms, and more besides…
In the second half of the 18th Century my family lived at One London Bridge – the first house and shop you came to as… Read More »The end of One London Bridge – and the end of London Bridge itself.
Wandering through the British Museum library of on-line prints I came across this lovely lady from 1782 wearing an enormous bell-shaped hat. The drawing is… Read More »Now THAT’S what I call a hat!
An interesting etching dating from 1769 shown courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library. As the site explains: In a panelled room hung with mirrors and a… Read More »A High Life at Noon…goings on in a well-to-do household, 1769
Not inspired to write today, so just a couple of illustrations of what wigs looked like in 1773 – and the hats they wore to… Read More »A man must cover his pate – 1773 style
I used to live in Richmond Hill in Bristol and was aware of the green plaque a few doors down advising the world that it… Read More »Sarah Guppy, 18th Century inventor, successful business woman, and cougar!
I remember as a child the feeling of wonderment when the first sputnik was launched and seeing this print entitled “Prime Bang up at Hackney… Read More »A balloon flight in honour of the Prince of Wales, 1811
On 14th November 1813 Lord Byron went to the Strand in London to see an elephant. Not any old elephant: Chunee, the star of numerous plays… Read More »The sad story of Chunee the elephant.
In 1742 Nehemiah Champion II and his wife Martha Goldney made a decision to buy a plot of land in Clifton Bristol with fine panoramic… Read More »The Chesterfield, a.k.a. Clifton Court Bristol
Eighteenth Century caricatures which involve doctors are usually served up with a healthy scepticism about the medical profession! Here are a few which I like: This appeared in… Read More »A spotlight on the Medical Profession in the Eighteenth Century