Spice, that’s nice!
Whenever I am really, really pushed for time, I resort to a guaranteed way of putting off having to buckle down and do things! I… Read More »Spice, that’s nice!
Whenever I am really, really pushed for time, I resort to a guaranteed way of putting off having to buckle down and do things! I… Read More »Spice, that’s nice!
Jethro Tull was an unusual character – he was born into a family of land-owning gentry in Berkshire in March 1674. He studied law at Gray’s… Read More »Tell Tull to till until told – the story of Jethro Tull.
A sad little story appeared in the Bath Chronicle in August 1795, about a fisherman called Simon Harman – a married man with seven young children. He… Read More »Lost at sea, 1795: the sad tale of Mr Harman
For Valentines Day a chance to re-visit an earlier post on the subject of love: I thought it would be nice to show a handful of different views… Read More »Love is in the air …. thank you Mr. Rowlandson!
I am not normally very keen on anthropomorphic pictures – animals dressed up as humans – but I bumped into these two pictures of monkeys… Read More »Too much monkey business….
O.K., so land drainage isn’t a particularly racy subject, but if you are a farmer trying to grow crops on claggy clay soil then you… Read More »Let us hear it for Joseph Elkington, a man who knew a good bog when he saw one…
Next time you reach for a bottle of aspirin to treat your headache, or back pain or rheumatic fever – let’s just call it “an ague”… Read More »Pass me the Aspirin, or rather, pass me the willow bark….
Trawling through different museum websites looking for images to use in my next book (an illustrated history of the Georgian era) I was delighted to… Read More »Out of Fashion – In Fashion, 1772