If my previous post on the 17th century beauty lecture I attended whetted your appetite, well exciting news...
On a Saturday afternoon, I am standing on the steps of St Michaels Church on Cornhill, near Bank meeting other coffee and history lovers, ready to embark on a Coffee House Tour of the City...
The historical use and creation of Fans date back to ancient times, primarily in a functional capacity as a ‘wind-maker’, to provide shade and to swat and deflect insects (lovely!); imagine the...
“In the period of which we speak, there reigned in the cities a stench barely conceivable to us modern men and women. The streets stank of manure, the courtyards of urine, the stairwells stank...