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I tend not to post blogs saying that I am away from home in case nefarious people in the neighbourhood take it upon themselves to pay my home a visit. So, instead I will recount a splendid recent Trans-Atlantic cruise on board the Oceania’s ship...
Not THAT Lee. And not at his plantation. And not actually at Stratford Hall. No rustle of silk, silver platters from the kitchen, obsequious... The post Elegant Dining with the Lees appeared first on Journal of the American Revolution.
Soldiers’ celebrations depended on circumstances, personal beliefs, and family or community traditions. David DeSimone notes in his article “Another Look at Christmas in the... The post Christmas Day: A Soldier’s Holiday? appeared first on Journal...
In February I am privileged to be invited back to Colonial Williamsburg to give a talk to fit in with the theme of virtue and vice, as part of their week-long 74th Annual Antiques Forum. Their promotional material for the seminar features a coloured mezzotint...
It is not exactly a secret that John Adams was a fan of cider. The Massachusetts-born second President’s love of the drink has been... The post John Adams’s Love of Cider appeared first on Journal of the American Revolution.
It is easy to think of William Hogarth as an artist and satirist and to forget that he earned his bread and butter doing mundane things like drawing trade cards for local businesses. One example is this one for Mrs Holt’s emporium, which stocked all...
On 26 July 1745 twenty-two ladies gathered in a field on Gosden Common near Guildford. Half of them – the maids of Hambledon – wore red ribbons around their hats; the other eleven, from Bramley, were bedecked with blue ribbons in their high hats....
Simon Stevin, in many ways the Father of Decimalisation. I was intrigued to see that someone at Oxford University is suggesting that our use of Imperial measurements (feet and inches, pounds and ounces etc) should be re-considered because of their links...
City Tavern in Philadelphia is a reconstruction of the famous eighteenth century tavern where countless patriots—both political and military—met throughout the American Revolution, and... The post “Spirits of Independence”: Ten...
Image courtesy of David Cohen, Unsplash To mark the fact that the clocks changed last night, a look at one of the ideas which triggered the whole question of daylight saving – a letter to the editor of The Journal of Paris dated 1784, from no less...
Portrait of Ignatius Sancho, by Thomas Gainsborough, 1768, courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery of Canada 14 December 2020 marked the 240th anniversary of the death of the remarkable Ignatius Sancho. I have blogged about him before: he was ...
Detail from a caricature by Richard Newton, courtesy of the Lewis Walpole Library at Yale. In 1729 the government decided to try and do ‘something’ about the social ills known nowadays as the Gin Craze. The result was the first Gin Act, passed...
This month, we asked our contributors: With many different holidays and celebrations approaching, what is your favorite beverage known to have been consumed during... The post Contributor Question: What is Your Favorite Beverage of the Revolutionary Era?...
Sawney in the Boghouse. © The Trustees of the British Museum The recent guest post by Naomi featured a print showing a Scotsman mis-using a close-stool or convenience. The original came out in 1745, just before the Jacobite uprising, and was at a...
Back in 1989 the French postal service issued a stamp featuring the French version of our stage coach, called a diligence – or ‘dilly’ as it was sometimes referred to. I only know about it because I inserted the words ‘Grand...
The Bell & Anchor public house at 38-40 Hammersmith Road was closed and demolished in the 1970s to make way for the lorry park at London’s Olympia. I only mention it because it was a well-known watering hole 200 years earlier, when it appears...
At present I am researching milliner’s shops in the 1780s – an esoteric subject, I appreciate, but one which is fascinating. It is part of my research into the life of an actress who will be featured in my next-book-but-one, on whores, harlots...
Tea in 18th Century America by Kimberly K. Walters. (K. Walters at the Sign of the Gray Horse, 2019) Best-selling author Lucinda Brant offers enthusiastic... The post Tea in 18th Century America appeared first on Journal of the American Revolution.
On this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews historian and managing editor of the Journal of the American Revolution, Don N. Hagist, about the fascinating... The post This Week on Dispatches: Don N. Hagist on Martha Bradley and Eighteenth-Century...
Martha Bradley lived in an age when a prosperous household often brewed its own beer, culturing and storing it in large wooden vessels in... The post Thanksgiving: A Week with Martha Bradley, <i>The British Housewife</i>, Day 5 appeared first...