Enough’s enough (snuff) for now!
Having a few idle moments to research my recent post about taking snuff I was delighted to come across the wonderful site of Wilsons and Co… Read More »Enough’s enough (snuff) for now!
Having a few idle moments to research my recent post about taking snuff I was delighted to come across the wonderful site of Wilsons and Co… Read More »Enough’s enough (snuff) for now!
I confess that as a dandified adolescent half a century ago, I used to sniff a little snuff. Sniff – not snort, mind you. Snorting… Read More »S’nuff to be going on with!
Spare a thought today for a young woman called Elizabeth Butchill who, on 6th January 1780, gave birth to an illegitimate child. Elizabeth Butchill had… Read More »18th Century infanticide: the sad and salutary tale of Elizabeth Butchill.
Walk down London’s Strand in the early 1770’s and you would not have been able to miss the crowds outside a print shop, under the hanging… Read More »Mary Darly, “mother of the caricature”.
“Les Trois Magots” by James Gilray, published in 1791 and shown courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery: a Hellgate Blackguard, a Newgate Scrub, and a Cripplegate… Read More »Hellgate, Cripplegate, Newgate and Billingsgate – one VERY larger-than-life family!
My Christmas present to myself this year was an old copy of Ackermann’s Microcosm of London – not the original i.e. first edition I hasten to add… Read More »3rd March 1791 – an awful fire….
Richard had two sons by his first marriage. The youngest was Francis – and life dealt him a somewhat hard hand compared to his elder… Read More »Mourning for Mary, 2nd March 1799.