Etiquette of morning calls and visits of ceremony

Post published:March 8, 2017
Post category:History Reading
Reading time:5 mins read

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…

I kind of feel sorry for the woodpecker.

Post published:May 7, 2015
Post category:History Reading
Reading time:1 min read

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…

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