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Norman Rockwell Depicted an Idealized Version of American Thanksgiving

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Baring her soul and music to the world: Interview with folk singer songwriter Anna Tivel.

Rearview Mirror

From the outset, Portland-based Anna Tivel has been a singer songwriter with an explicit goal of telling her captive audience the stories of the lives of ordinary people. As a young girl growing up in rural northern Washington, Tivel had always been inquisitive about everything around her. And as if it was fate, the world around Anna had become her biggest inspiration, as she sort to find her place as a young woman and singer songwriter. With her fourth album Small Believer r...

The Last Days of Mary Ann Burdock

All Things Georgian

We are delighted to welcome back to our blog, the author Naomi Clifford. For her book Women and the Gallows 1797-1837: Unfortunate Wretches, Naomi researched the stories of the 131 women who were hanged in England and Wales between 1797 and 1837. Here she outlines the last days of the notorious poisoner Mary Ann Burdock.

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Buckey O’Neill, Captain of TR’s Rough Riders

Presidential History Blog

Next to Theodore Roosevelt, Buckey O’Neill was the most famous Rough Rider.

Buckey O’Neill: Not-So-Rough Riding

Buckey O’Neill, man of varied and various interests.

No doubt about it, when Theodore Roosevelt assembled the voluntary cavalry corps nicknamed the Rough Riders, a wide assortment of men couldn’t wait to sign up. One of them, westerner William Owen O’Neill (1860-1898) had almost as varied a life-path as his soon-to-be pal TR.

He was born in St. Louis,...

Lady Rose

History... the interesting bits!

Lady Rose

Lady Rose

Rose Locke was born in London on 26 December 1526. She was the daughter of Sir William Locke and his 2nd wife, Katherine. The 3rd of 11 children, her family were some of the earliest Protestants in England, and staunch supporters of Henry VIII’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon. The family lived in Cheapside in the 1530s, with Rose’s father and several brothers serving as agents of the king in France and Flanders during the 1540s. A merc...

Interview with Jazz Bassist Linda May Han Oh

Rearview Mirror

Born in Malaysia and raised in Perth, Western Australia, as a teen Linda May Han Oh discovered the upright bass. It wasn’t long before the talent musician was receiving rewards and accolades from the jazz aficionados in Australia and abroad. Somewhere in the middle of all her honours, she completed her Masters at the Manhattan School of Music in 2008, and has called New York home ever since.

Composer, working jazz musician, teacher, bandleader, and unashamed Red Hot Chilli Pe...

French Misadventure: Alexander and William Walker

All Things Georgian

As Lewis Troughton, the Beadle of Christ Church, Southwark walked along Blackfriars Road one crisp, fine November day in 1817, his attention was taken by a crowd gathered around two young and frightened boys who were dressed ‘in the French costume’. Only two years after the Battle of Waterloo, the youngsters garb might have excited some suspicions but when they began to explain their predicament the mystery only deepened. The younger of the two, aged around nine or  ten y...

Knights Templar: Temple Bruer

Crusader History

Temple Bruer Church and Buildings

Temple Bruer emerged in the middle of the vast Lincoln Heath, which spread out southwards from the city of Lincoln.  The heath sparsely populated, and during the Templar times, would have been desolate and forbidding.

The Order of the Knights Templar, were bequeathed the land by William of Ashby in the mid 12th century.  The Templar’s with their renowned vigour and enterprise built a great preceptor and established a productive estate.

As...

My Life: Julius Caesar

History... Our Evolution

Julius Caesar

Gaius Julius Caesar was born on the 12th July 100 BC in Rome, Italy to parents Gaius Julius Caesar and Aurelia Cotta.  Allegedly Julius Caesar was a descendant of Trojan Prince Aeneas, and his birth marked the beginning of a new chapter in Roman history.

His parents believed in the Populare ideology of Rome, favouring democratization of the government and more rights for the lower class.  Whilst the Optimate factions claimed superiority for the nobili...

Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot: Who was Guy Fawkes?

just history posts

Remember, remember the Fifth of November,

The Gunpowder Treason and Plot,

I know of no reason

Why the Gunpowder Treason

Should ever be forgot.

If you live in the UK, or possible elsewhere in the world, this weekend you probably had fireworks, bonfires, and sparklers to celebrate the 5th November. This holiday remembers the failed Gunpowder Plot of 1605 where a group of conspirators nearly blew up King James VI of Scotland and I of England and most of Parliament (and with i...