"for the pig was proud of his dress"
May 17, 2023 4:14 PM Subscribe
English Historical Fiction Authors is a group blog that has been going since 2011, where researchers and novelists post about British history. There are posts about wool and war, Schools of Gardening for Ladies, beds and bugs, aspirin, theatrical censorship, magazines, tours of Ruthin and Snowdon, slipcoat cheese and posset, subversive fairy tales, and The Learned Pig.
Other selected posts:
Other selected posts:
- Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon – Haute Couturiere and Entrepreneur
- A Merchant Visits Waterford in the Summer of 1170
- Alice Wolf: ‘The Diabolic Woman' (sixteenth-century crime)
- Sweet Peas in Worcestershire: Horticulturalist Hilda Hemus
- The Testimony of Sal Madge (nineteenth-century Cumbria)
- Extreme Embroidery, 17th Century
- The Portsmouth Road or The Sailor’s Highway
- Mistress of More Variety: Actress Susanna Verbruggen
- A 19th century Check-out Inventory
- A Vicar Saves His Flock (mining and co-operative history)
- Eleanor Glanville, seventeenth-century entomologist
This is absolutely wonderful.
posted by Modest House at 6:38 PM on May 17 [1 favorite]
posted by Modest House at 6:38 PM on May 17 [1 favorite]
Marvelous post, thank you!
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