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I have NEWS
I don't update much lately because not a lot has been happening. We've been saving up for a deposit on a house which has meant we're not going out or doing much at all. Everything else in my life is fine - Mum's ok, settled, eating, happy in the home. Work is... much the same - teachers still mental - I'm going to the annual congress in Galway ( Read more... ) -
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
Today the broadband decided to go down. I am five days from a deadline and need to access 19th century newspaper archives. As good as this phone is, I don't think I can read scanned images of 3pt font on it.
I guess I'll work on the footnotes and proof reading, and not just weep quietly in the corner. -
History corner: actual headline of 1856
'THE RIGHT OF BUTCHERS TO KICK THEIR CUSTOMERS'
British customer service: ever was it thus. -
History Corner: Strangers messing with his bailiwick
I have just read Bray and Environs a book written circa 1903 by Arthur L Doran; a man who appears to be the bastard son of Mr Logic and Victorian Dad:
STATELY HOMES AND THEIR OWNERS.
INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.
A great deal of rank nonsense is often promulgated anent the exclusiveness of noble owners, and their meanness in charging for admission to their ( Read more... ) -
History Corner - "Wholesome correction"
VIRAGOS, and the WIFE-BEATING ACT.
A " shrewish-looking woman," and "a strong good-tempered looking man" appeared at the Thames Police-court on Thursday, before Mr. Yardley, in a matter which proves, what we have long suspected, that the Act for punishing wife-beating is occasionally perverted, and made use of by viragos as a means for wreaking ( Read more... ) -
A true Renaissance man
Charles Mingus - legendary jazz musician, civil rights campaigner and feline toilet-training expert.
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History corner: a little bit of an over-reaction from 1850
'I went into the outer counting-house to speak to Mr. Banks, and there I saw the prisoner standing with these two hunting-whips in his hands (produced, one had an iron hammer for the handle)-he held the cane-handled one towards me, and said, "Take that"
I said, "Why am I to take it?"
He said, "You take it"
I said, "I shall do nothing of the kind"
He ( Read more... )