It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman in possession of a love of history, must be in want of a blog.
Following several festive-themed posts, a three week Christmas break and the latest installment of Miss Tickletoby's Lectures on English History, now for something completely different. For most people in the Anglo-Saxon world at least, Danish history is a blank, perhaps filled in only by vague memories of Hamlet's line "something is rotten in the state …
Continue reading Johann Struensee, the German doctor who ruled Denmark
In the 18th and 19th centuries, criminal barristers were viewed by many people with suspicion and even hostility. A cartoon from around 1800 portrays a barrister saving a clearly guilty thief whilst trampling on the figure of Justice. In a way, it's not so different from the dislike which criminal barristers arouse in some people …