by Geoffrey | Dec 28, 2016 | Uncategorized
The main characters in Highwaypersons seem to drink a lot of wine, sherry, port, brandy, whisky and ale. In short every drink containing alcohol, whenever available. So do most of the other characters. Was this a period of a great deal of drunkenness? How typical...
by Geoffrey | Dec 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
In Highwaypersons, characters send and receive letters between London and Cardiff and between Cardiff and Cardigan. When he read this, someone asked whether or not this was an anachronism. Surely, there was no national postal service in the early Eighteenth Century?...
by Geoffrey | Dec 20, 2016 | Uncategorized
I have seen the series, The Victorian Slum. It was interesting to see a group of modern people trying to survive under Nineteenth Century slum conditions. It certainly brought the subject to life. For those of us who enjoy reading, and even writing, historical...
by Geoffrey | Dec 16, 2016 | Uncategorized
Some people assume that historians and historical novelists are obsessed with the past. They suppose that we think everything was better in The Good Old Days and oppose every innovation. Some might even imagine we are all Conservatives politically. They are wrong,...
by Geoffrey | Dec 12, 2016 | Uncategorized
I have been watching Black and British. It is an attempt at making us all aware of the history of black people in Britain. For some, this would sound like an exercise in political correctness. You could think that this is a subject only black people should be...
