History and Other Stuff
Blogging on history, nature, travel, and some quirky things.
Sunday, 10 March 2019
Oh, those Witty Georgians
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The Georgian Age in Britain, roughly the 18th and early 19th centuries, is renowned for its often cutting wit. It shows up in many writing...
Wednesday, 27 February 2019
A British Admiral is Executed for Cowardice, 1757
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Voltaire's satrical novella, Candide (1759) contains an episode in which the hero, Candide, arrives in Portsmouth, England on a Dutch sh...
Monday, 18 February 2019
Soap, Imperialism, and Racism
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Soap: an innocent item of everyday life, one would think. The Victorians proclaimed "Cleanliness is next to Godliness." Soap and w...
Sunday, 3 February 2019
An Unwelcome Immigrant: Cholera Comes to Britain
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At the beginning of the 1830s, Britain was in ferment. As with Brexit today, the country was badly divided over several issues: reform of Pa...
Monday, 21 January 2019
Plague and Imperialism: The Third Pandemic: 1890s-1920s
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According to medical historians, bubonic plague has reached pandemic (global or near global) level on three occasions. The first, often call...
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Wednesday, 2 January 2019
London's Clerkenwell District: Wells, Prisons, Dickens, and Marx
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The London neighborhood of Clerkenwell, a short walk to the north of the intersection of Ludgate Hill and Fleet Street, derives its name fr...
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