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Etiquette of morning calls and visits of ceremony

March 08, 2017 in 19th Century and Onwards, Historical Books, History, Reading
Etiquette of morning calls and visits of ceremony

One of the reasons I love reading Victorian/Regency novels is that I get a glimpse of the everyday rituals, strange to us now, that were so important to the people performing them. One of those rituals that always seemed at once charming and terrifying to me was the obligation of the morning call 0r social visit. … Read More

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I kind of feel sorry for the woodpecker.

May 07, 2015 in 18th Century and Earlier, Historical Books, History, Reading

Many buildings outside London had thatched roofs of reed or straw, and in January 1784 Woodforde noted: ‘I rejoiced much this morning on shooting an old wood-pecker, which had teised [teased] me a long time in pulling out the reed from my house. He had been often shot at by me and others…For this last … Read More

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