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Genealogist, Writer & Wodehouse Obsessive. Author of The Little Book of Ick. Words in Mashable, Stylist, Polyester etc. National Trust alum.

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Books about books are mandatory for a proper home library.

22.11.2024 20:40 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I don't know who needs to hear this, but if all you accomplish this weekend is reading a riveting novel cover-to-cover whilst drinking multiple kettles of tea and consuming a scandalous amount of croissants, then you will have accomplished more than enough.

22.11.2024 10:10 — 👍 23675    🔁 2049    💬 753    📌 246
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Staying with my dad for a couple of months, which means I also have this diva for a housemate.

22.11.2024 10:08 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Hogarth engraving of a rowdy party. The scene has a chaotic energy and a number of men are seated around a table in varying states of drunkenness; one man has fallen off his chair and is lying on the floor. Many of the men are smoking pipes and there is a punch bowl and ladle in the middle of the table.

Hogarth engraving of a rowdy party. The scene has a chaotic energy and a number of men are seated around a table in varying states of drunkenness; one man has fallen off his chair and is lying on the floor. Many of the men are smoking pipes and there is a punch bowl and ladle in the middle of the table.

Today's #OccupationOfTheDay is...MANAGER OF FEAST:

"An amusement caterer or showman who organises amusements at wakes or on feast and gala days; may also organise bean feasts etc."

Dict Occup'l Terms (1927)
📷 Hogarth engraving (c.1732) c/o Wellcome Coll'n

22.11.2024 09:30 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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a woman is crying in front of a window while wearing a black suit . ALT: a woman is crying in front of a window while wearing a black suit .
21.11.2024 16:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

remember doing "Zoom quizzes" with your family... we were truly in the trenches

21.11.2024 16:15 — 👍 9    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Now the genealogist in me wants to find them 🙃

21.11.2024 16:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Best part of rare bookselling is undoubtedly the inscriptions 🥹

21.11.2024 14:48 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1

Huge news Sophie, congrats!!

15.11.2024 11:54 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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