Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
21 July 2025

A Tale of Trafalgar

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A Royal Marine private in 1815 Source: Wikimedia Commons In the pages of M. H. Miller’s interesting compilation, Leek: Fifty Years Ago , ca...
10 November 2024

Dickens, the Dodo and the Dinner Plate

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On 1 April 1852, the writer Charles Dickens wrote a letter to his wife Kate informing her ‘We think of going on tonight from Birmingham to S...
10 October 2024

Wind-Stars for Mr Wells

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Norman Saunder's illustration  showing the Time Traveller  rescuing Weena from the Morlocks in The Time Machine . (Wikimedia Commons) I ...
25 August 2023

The Lamppost of Beauty

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On 11 June 1956, 46 year old Arnold Machin and his 34 year old wife Pat of number 15 The Villas, Stoke, took a stand against the encroachmen...
21 March 2018

Characteristics of the Working Population

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Published in 1847 by Charles Knight, The Land We Live In , was ostensibly a travel guide written for those adventurous souls who wished to ...
13 March 2018

Elijah Fenton

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Elijah Fenton Elijah Fenton, poet, biographer and translator, was born at Shelton on 25 May 1683. His father John Fenton, an attorney a...
03 March 2018

Jane Austen and the Clay of Staffordshire.

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Through the efforts of potters such as Thomas Whieldon, Josiah Wedgwood, Josiah Spode and many others less well known, between 1750 and 1800...
31 January 2018

News and a Narrowboat

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On 1 September 1939, Tom Rolt and his wife Angela were travelling along the Trent and Mersey canal aboard their narrowboat, Cressy . Arrivi...