Fairfax House revisited
I recall doing a blog once before on Fairfax House in York (here) but felt it was time to update the post, having been to… Read More »Fairfax House revisited
I recall doing a blog once before on Fairfax House in York (here) but felt it was time to update the post, having been to… Read More »Fairfax House revisited
I have just returned to Spain after a fascinating couple of days in York, courtesy of Fairfax House (more of whom in the next day… Read More »Shops and shopping in the eighteenth century…
In researching for my next book “In bed with the Georgians – Sex, Scandal and Satire” I came across a book by Richard King which… Read More »A pick-up at the jelly-house…
As the artist J M W Turner was strolling along the south bank of the River Thames on 16 October 1834 he saw flames erupting… Read More »16 October 1834: Two Irishmen burn both the House of Lords and the House of Commons to the ground.
I still have many of Richard Hall’s fossils, which he avidly collected. At the end of February 1790 he appears to have had a “job… Read More »Fossils, an eighteenth century fascination.
I am putting the finishing touches to the manuscript for “Sex, Scandal and Satire – in bed with the Georgians”, due to be published next… Read More »Sex, Scandal and Satire – in bed with the Georgians: an update.
Today you don’t just get one lot of one hundred facts, you get two! I was delighted to see that my own book “One… Read More »A new head to head: the Stuarts versus the Georgians!
I came across this nice engraving of a horseless carriage on the Library of Congress site. It was originally included as a plate in the… Read More »The machine to go without asses – the chariot of state riding roughshod over the politicians of the day, 1769.