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What did the Victorians drink? A guide to boozing in the 1800s
One of the things I find most delightful about history is that, while the people of the past wore funny clothes and sometimes thought about the world in a startlingly different way, many things remain...
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The only emperor is the emperor of ice-cream
…Wrote Wallace Stevens, in 1923. It’s one of those notoriously difficult modernist poems, but all it really means is ‘don’t get all metaphysical now. Eat ice cream, because tomorrow you could be dead’....
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Happy Christmas! The mysterious and delicious history of Mince Pies…
I love a mince pie, but they are a bit weird, aren’t they? I’ve often wondered just why we eat such strange things at Christmas – and now I’ve found out why! Back in Ye Olde medieval times, everyone...
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The weirdest New Year’s Eve party in history
If you’re reading this, it can only mean one thing… YOU SURVIVED!!! The zombie apocalypse of drunken craziness that we call new year’s eve has passed, and you’ve crawled out from the fog of a terrible...
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Christmas in the Asylum
Imagine spending Christmas inside Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum in the nineteenth century. What a horrible thought! A long way from the cosy Dickensian Christmas of the roaring fire, Christmas...
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