“Dance’s Historical Miscellany” is one year old today!

  Exactly one year ago, on 25th May 2013,  I posted my first article, writing about my inspiration and aspirations for this blog. 18,888 page views later, "Dance's Historical Miscellany" has been more successful than I could have ever hoped. When I started, I imagined that it would remain very small scale, perhaps read mainly …

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Miss Tickletoby’s Lectures on English History: The Norman Conquest

In 1842, William Thackeray published the fourth of his satirical pieces titled Miss Tickletoby's Lectures on English History, in Punch magazine, for which he was a regular contributor. They are a hilarious send-up of 19th-century English education, as captured through the lectures of the imaginary schoolmistress/historian, Miss Tickletoby. Readers who can remember Our Island Story may see some similarities …

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