The world the English (and Welsh, Scots, Irish) created between the mid-15th and the mid-18th centuries
8 May 2013
The 3 May 2013 issue of TLS has an intriguing detail of a Restoration-era beaded basket of Charles II and Catherine of Braganza. The Holburne Museum of Bath, is seeking to acquire...
Samuel Pepys, blogger: Happy Birthday
24 February 2013
"23 February 1659/60. Thursday, my birthday, now twenty-seven years." I almost missed the birthday of Samuel Pepys. Pepys, as you probably know, blogged his Diary from January...
Reading in Parts: Thinking, Speaking, and Writing with Partial Knowledge
17 February 2013
I bought a copy of More Baths Less Talking (2012), the latest volume of a selection of Nick Hornby's "Stuff I've been Reading" columns for The Believer for someone else and...