African Americans in The Great War. How to Address a Lord. Subscribe to the newsletter and get Edwardian-themed news delivered straight to your inbox! 3 Games That Helped The Suffragettes Win the Vote. The Silent March That Shook American Race Relations 100 Years Ago. The Party, The Pie, and the Girl Who Brought Down a Gilded Age Tycoon.

Tuesday, December 29, 2009. Friday, December 18, 2009.

A study tour of Venice preceded by a week in Adelaide and a week in London. After two weeks in Venice we will return to Paris for a few days before heading back to Hobart. Monday, April 5, 2010. Then there are the familiar jobs performed in an unfamiliar way; fireboats instead of fire engines, postal boats making deliveries, funeral boats forming a cortege to take the dead for burial. It is all about life in the Venetian lagoon.

Adam Worth, sometimes given the same epithet as the fictional villian who challenged Sherlock Holmes, The Napoleon of Crime , was a German-born criminal mastermind. After being declared dead, the criminal comes of age. What would you gamble for a better life? July 10, 2013.

In Westminster Hall I Danced A Dance. Contains a number of interesting allusions.

My blog looks at different aspects of history that interest me as well as commenting on political issues that are in the news. Sunday, 9 August 2015. In many respects, both moves reflect a denial of developments in the last three decades, an attempt to put the genie back into the bottle.

The Hoarding On 19th-Century Literary Scholarship. The Ring and the Book. And the Art of the Unheard Echo.

Is in the writing-up year of her PhD at Keele University.

Places on the Internet to Start Your Exploration. Friday, August 1, 2014. This is a fun site with an almost game like feel. You feel like you really have time traveled. Click here to visit 1876 Victorian England. Monday, June 30, 2014.