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AustenOnly Persuasion Season : Book Review “Enterprising Women and Shipping...
You may have realised by now that I like to know the teeny-tiny details of social history…How exactly did people make a whipp’t syllabub ? What exactly did having a putrid throat mean? How was it...
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Mr Price Changing Guard
Go here for a wonderful old film courtesy of Portmouth Historic Dockyards of the 1805 Royal Marines guard( in reconstruction) changing guard with a modern marines (1930s ) during Navy Week in 1930....
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The Diaries of Elizabeth “Betsey” Wynne
Sophie Croft in Persuasion is one of my favourite of all Jane Austen’s characters. Intelligent, kind, humorous, a woman of sense, in love with her husband the Admiral, she is widely travelled and has...
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Celebrating Trafalgar Day
Today, the 21st October, is the anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar. This decisive sea battle between the French (and their allies the Spanish) and English fleets took place in 1805. Jane Austen...
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An Etui with the Nelson Touch?
We celebrated Trafalgar day just over two weeks ago, and Simon Chorley auctioneers of Gloucestershire are offering for sale a rather intriguing etui with a possible Nelson connection, so I thought you...
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The Nile Medal and Frank Austen
We celebrated Trafalgar Day only a few weeks ago, and a few days ago a Nile medal, shown below, was sold at Peter Wilson auctioneers, of Cheshire, for £9,000. I thought you might like to know some...
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Nelson Memorabilia for Sale
Next week, on the 18th January, Bonhams the auctioneers are holding an interesting sale at their London salerooms. The Gentleman’s Library Sale is offering some very eclectic items but some are of...
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Livery: Preserving the Distinction of Rank, Part Three.
Yesterday we talked about coats of arms, heraldic colours and how important they were for determining the colours of liveries. Today, let’s look at the practical application of all we learnt. We know...
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