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May 26, 2017
Reading Habits and Book Buying Preferences: A Brief and Unscientific Readers’ Poll
As many of you know, I have several books that will be coming out over the next year. In anticipation of their release, I’d love to learn a little more about your reading habits. I have devised two brief and wholly unscientific poll questions. It will take just a few moments of your time to answer […]
May 22, 2017
Promiscuous Bathing at Margate: Victorian Outrage Over Indecency at the Public Beach
“Indecency among the Margate Bathers comes round as regularly as the season itself.” The Era, 23 July 1865. In Victorian England, it was generally believed that the sexes should be kept apart when bathing. To that end, the gentlemen’s wheeled bathing machines at the beach were often kept as much as a quarter of a […]
