CULTURAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY

Who worked the Edwardian farms?

When Edward came to the throne in 1901 the number of farmers in England and Wales was about 225,000 according...

05/06/2013

While there was a considerable difference in the housing of the upper and lower middle classes, this did not apply...

19/05/2013

In the snowy spring of 1733, Samuel Croxall, a classical translator, travelled to Herefordshire to visit his retired publisher, Jacob...

11/04/2013

By the time Victoria became queen of Great Britain in 1837 the powers of the monarch were much more restricted...

24/02/2013

So little is known about Kievan Russia that it has been easy to surround it with the glamour of mystery...

12/01/2013

Yet within the single lifetime of some of its oldest inhabitants today, Europe has undergone an astonishing transformation, a transformation...

02/01/2013

Like the inclusion of crenellations, the creation of a deer park required a license from the Crown. The ownership of...

23/12/2012

Every 31 October in the USA, in Britain and increasingly in places as diverse as Japan, Slovenia and India, costumed...

25/10/2012

Pronunciation of words in Elizabethan English is a complicated matter, since linguistically it rests between the “say what you see”...

14/10/2012

For women there were punishments designed to humiliate as well as to hurt. The scold’s bridle took many appearances but...

01/10/2012