Regency Culture and Society: All Hallow’s Eve Part II
“In England we celebrate all hallows eve or nutcrack night as this vigil is called by eating apples and cracking nuts; we disclaim and reject all Continue
“In England we celebrate all hallows eve or nutcrack night as this vigil is called by eating apples and cracking nuts; we disclaim and reject all Continue
In the first part of my Halloween in the Regency series, I present a poem written in 1785 that provides a little perspective on the Continue
Stone cold fox, Charles Babbage, was a brainiac. In 1824, Babbage won the Gold Medal of the Royal Astronomical Society “for his invention of an engine Continue
“When a stranger first arrives in this overgrown city and finds upon alighting at the inn that he has still some miles perhaps to go Continue