Well, here we are at the beginning of another month, so here’s a roundup of the history blogs that grabbed our attention last month. As always we really hope you find them as interesting as we have.
Word of the Week – Victualling Office
Henri de Rigny: turning adversity into opportunity
Letters Patent in 1803 and the privileges they carried
A Beautiful Needle Lace Sampler for 1795
Fleuron: A Database of Eighteenth-Century Printers’ Ornaments
Victorian Era Medicine Laudanum
Maria Edgeworth’s (Deleted) Thoughts on Frances Burney’s Evelina
Keeping the Secret (the Seasalter Company of Smugglers)
The Dutch explorer and africanist Alexandrine Petronella Francina Tinne
Emblems of the Soul: Butterflies in Victorian Fashion and Folklore
John Trew and an Elizabethan Tank
The Killer Coroner and the Pesky Peacock
Historic Painting: Maslenitsa by Boris Kustodiev, 1919