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A Bowl of Christmas Cheer
Modern copy of a Famille Rose Punch Bowl (chipped on the rim just as the real thing often was!) Christmas as we know it was largely a Victorian invention – Charles Dickens and Prince Albert fixed...
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Blue dye, linen underwear and Wright of Derby
Indigo cultivation in Brazil By José Mariano da Conceição Velloso [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons We think of Jamaica as the great home of sugar production in the eighteenth century, which of...
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Sugar and Medicine
Papaver somniferum, Opium Poppy – By Franz Eugen Köhler, Köhler’s Medizinal-Pflanzen via Wikimedia Commons Sugar, which was so crucial to the development of Jamaica in the eighteenth century, is...
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A Parcel of Ribbons – The Book – Now available
Available in perfect bound paperback 6″ x 9″ – 374 pages with illustrations. ISBN: 9781105809743 When I set up this website it was with the aim of sharing material I had come across during research...
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Inoculation, Vaccination and an old controversy
Morning P0st 17 May 1810 from British Newspaper Archive While researching something else entirely I came across Dr Benjamin Moseley and an old controversy with very modern echoes. Benjamin Moseley was...
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A Missing Miniature – Robert Cooper Lee
I had always wondered if somewhere there existed an image of Robert Cooper Lee. When he returned to England in 1771 he joined the upper echelons of society, people who often commissioned portraits of...
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Sugar loaves and coal scuttles
Coal boats loading at North Shields c.1795 - J M W Turner (via Wikimedia Commons) It’s that time of year when preserving garden produce for the winter is on my mind. It’s been a fantastic year for...
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