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Posted by Tom Johnson, 6 June 2022. On a Sunday night in August 1465, a group of people gathered in the village of Bunwell – about 15 miles southwest of Norwich, to summon an “aerial spirit,” in the hope that it would lead them to buried treasure....
Title: The infamous butler. Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1788] Catalog Record File 646 788 In43 Acquired March 2020
Westminster election handbill Title: The bottle of wine and butler. A rare instance of humanity!!! in the character of Lord John Townshend. Publication: [London] : [publisher not identified], [1788] Catalog Record File 646 788 B751 Acquired March...
Title: The maid and the magpie, or, The real thief detected. : An entertaining tale founded upon a well-known fact of an amiable girl who was sentenced to suffer upon strong circumstantial evidence of stealing various articles of plate, which were afterwards...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “The Original of this Advertisement, with the Subscribers Names, which are omitted, may be seen at the Printing-Office.” Colonial printers disseminated information via newspapers,...
Posted by Sara M. Butler, 23 Aug. 2021. Like many other teenagers, the only reason I enjoyed leafing through the occasional Shakespearean play in high school was that they provided me with a glorious and expansive vocabulary of insults with which to...
“The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone.”[1] It had been less than three months since Congress had adopted a... The post Thou Shalt Not Steal: Plunder, Theft, and Sticky Fingers appeared first on Journal of the American...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Stop the Felons!” Although colonial newspapers carried stories about a variety of events, much of the crime reporting appeared among the advertisements. Rather...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “Cutting his throat, and stabbing him in the belly.” The advertising section of the Providence Gazette in the early 1770s sometimes read like a late nineteenth-century...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “A THEFT.” The August 4, 1770, edition of the Providence Gazette included advertisements that promoted consumers goods and services for sale, but it also featured several...
New blogpost written for the Forms of Labour Project exploring everyday life and work in early modern England through the depositions of a Lancashire quarter sessions court case. Featuring an industrious duck-wife, a vision-granting witch, gossiping stonemen,...
By Cassie Watson; posted 13 June 2020. At a time when none of us can go to any archive, I decided to investigate the online contents of collections made temporarily available to university staff and students during the Covid-19 pandemic. I also purchased...
Posted by Krista J. Kesselring, 22 April 2020. Can you steal a peacock? Jurists once debated this question and, for a time at least, said ‘no’. As animals meant for pleasure rather than for profit, peacocks were not ‘larcenable’....
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “The trifling expence of a News Paper.” Colonists did not have to subscribe to newspapers to gain access to their contents. Some subscribers passed along newspapers...
Over two hundred years after her death, Margaret Catchpole (1762–1811) is remembered by many – for the things she was not and the things she did not do, largely because someone who never met her wrote her purported biography, which was largely...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “One of Mrs. Stoke’s hand bills relating to her boarding school in Charlestown.” Newspaper notices accounted for the vast majority of advertisements that circulated...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? “The Shop of the Subscribers was broke open, and sundry Things stolen.” Several advertisements relayed stories of theft in the December 2, 1769, edition of the Providence...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Providence Gazette (November 11, 1769). “A THEFT.” Multiple reports of theft appeared among the advertisements inserted in the November 11, 1769, edition of the Providence...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? Providence Gazette (October 7, 1769). “STolen … a black Broadcloth Coat and Waistcoat.” Advertisements in eighteenth-century newspapers reveal many avenues for...
What was advertised in a colonial American newspaper 250 years ago today? New-Hampshire Gazette (September 1, 1769). “He will mend and clean a WATCH for one half what Simnet will, let him mend as cheap as he will.” Readers of the New-Hampshire...
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