Showing posts with label personal accounts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label personal accounts. Show all posts
11 March 2026

Lost with the Lusitania

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The sinking of the Lusitania by marine artist Norman Wilkinson Source: Wikimedia Commons On 7 May 1915, the Cunard liner Lusitania , en rout...
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...
14 January 2025

An Awful and Melancholy Accident

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An appalling family tragedy occurred in Hanley on Saturday 1 August 1807, when Robert, John and James Wilson, three sons of David Wilson, a ...
04 February 2024

A Swedish Spy in the Valley of Crockery

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A portrait of R. R. Angerstein in 1755. Source: Wikimedia Commons A visitor to the mid-18th century Potteries was Reinhold R ΓΌ cker Angerste...

See a Fine Lady upon a White Horse

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Between 1697 and 1702, partly from a wish to improve her health and from an equally strong desire to see more of her native land, Lady Celia...
03 July 2021

Anarchy in Etruria

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In early March 1783, the local economy was in decline and people were going hungry. A poor harvest the year before plus the knock-on economi...
30 August 2020

Up, Up and Away

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Balloonist Charles Green later in life. Charles Green was quite a celebrity when he arrived in the Potteries in early October 1826. A p...
04 August 2019

Teddy Boy (Part 1)

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Bill Cooper (third from left) in his early days as a Ted. 'When I was 14 and still living in Nelson Place with my sister Mi...