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What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? “Goods of the best qualities, and newest patterns.” George Fenner stocked a variety of textiles and clothing at his store on Broad Street in New York. In an...
Dorothy Kidley was a Merchant Taylors’ Company apprentice and hoodseller working on Cheapside in the 1660s and 1670s. Mulier Generosa Anglica / English gentle woman, Wenceslaus Hollar, 1643 RP-P-OB-11.525 Public domain in the collection of the...
Rachel Erskin was a seamstress working on the Royal Exchange for more than five decades in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. Erskin was one of three daughters of William Erskin, a Doctor of Divinity. He died in Norfolk in 1657, bequeathing...
Ann Collard née Jacques was a haberdasher and milliner who worked on Bishopsgate Street in London in the eighteenth century. In 1747, Ann married George Collard, a freemen of the Merchant Taylors’ Company, and the table below details the...
Guest report by Edel Carmody, Cyclone Rep Theatre Company This year marks the tenth anniversary since the creation of Cyclone Rep’s Shakespeare Sessions. Cyclone Rep is Ireland’s leading Shakespearean Theatre-in-Education Company. We...
Susanna Kidley-Warren was a seamstress working on Cheapside in the City of London between 1655 and 1684. She was baptised in Little Birch in Herefordshire on 2 November 1642.[1] The daughter of John Kidley, a gentleman, and his wife Bridget, Susanna...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Nothing has been contrary to the true Spirit and Intention of the Articles of Association.” Legh Master’s advertisement for “A CARGO of European and East...
On Saturday September 17, 1938 New York governor Herbert H. Lehman and 5,000 others assembled in Poughkeepsie to observe the sesquicentennial of the Empire... The post Isaac Roosevelt: Merchant, Federalist, Banker, New Yorker appeared first on Journal...
[From eventbrite website] This October, Kilkenny Castle will host a Study Day that seeks to highlight information concerning the extensive network of connections that the earls of Ormond had with their counterparts at the English Court and further afield...
[Info from Civic Theatre, Tallaght, website] Cyclone Rep, Ireland’s Leading Shakespeare Theatre-in-Education Company, presents The Shakespeare Sessions. These are entertaining and engaging student-centred performances of Shakespeare’s texts....
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Georgia Gazette (August 2, 1769). “THE subscribers being desirous to close all their concerns, in the dry good business.” Inglis and Hall were among the most prolific...
In this week’s Dispatches host Brady Crytzer interviews distinguished journalist and historian Harlow Giles Unger about Robert Morris and his critical role in financially supporting the... The post This Week on Dispatches: Harlow Giles...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? New-York Gazette and Weekly Mercury (May 15, 1769). “In August last an Agreement was made not to import any Goods from Great-Britain.” This notice appeared in the May...
According to the Virginia Gazette between 400 and 500 merchants gathered in Williamsburg in early November 1774 and “voluntarily and generally signed” the Continental... The post The Mystery of “The Alternative of Williams-burg”...
GUEST CURATOR: Zachary Dubreuil What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Providence Gazette (March 18, 1769). “Choice Indico.” This advertisement shows that Joseph and William Russell had multiple items for...
GUEST CURATOR: Luke DiCicco What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago this week? Georgia Gazette (March 8, 1769). “Samuel Elbert HAS JUST IMPORTED … NEW-ENGLAND RUM.” This advertisement features a series of...
Michael Borsk When the Irish merchant Richard Popham found that his fortunes in New York had turned sour during the fall of 1826, he penned a letter to his acquaintance living in Upper Canada, John Large. “My mind is in a dreadful state of agitation,”...
For list of trade goods see PDF here: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/Depts/History/bristolrecordsociety/publications/brs20.pdf
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? South-Carolina Gazette and Country Journal (September 6, 1768).“ANDREW LORD, Has just imported …” In September 1768 Andrew Lord experimented with a marketing...
Review from Thomas Tyrrell that first appeared in Wales Arts Review: Everyman | Cardiff Open-Air Theatre Festival, 2018 The plots of many of Shakespeare’s comedies work better if you assume the characters are drunk most of the time. Joss Whedon’s...
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