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It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman in possession of a love of history, must be in want of a blog.

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2016

February
Toilet soap, cleanliness, and imperialism

April
Before the Revolution: images of secular Iran
‘Butcher Cumberland’ and the smashing of the Highland clans
Creole women in the British imagination

May
Anne Bonny and Mary Read, two 18th-century pirates
Painted faces: cosmetics in the 18th century

June
Jewish life in medieval England

July
Castle Ward, a house divided by marriage

August
What did Victorian bachelors think of marriage?

October
‘On being over-fond of animals’

Top Posts

  • Painted faces: cosmetics in the 18th century
  • Circassia, home of the world's most beautiful women
  • Manlike monsters in medieval manuscripts
  • The remarkable Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
  • 'Lisztomania': Franz Liszt, sex, and celebrity
  • Soap, cleanliness, and imperialism
  • Filth, disease and Dickens: Jacob's Island, a London slum
  • Before the Revolution: images of secular Iran
  • Johann Struensee, the German doctor who ruled Denmark
  • Harris's List, or, a catalogue of London prostitutes from 1789
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