It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a woman in possession of a love of history, must be in want of a blog.
In 1842, William Thackeray published the second of his satirical pieces titled Miss Tickletoby's Lectures on English History, in Punch magazine, for which he was a regular contributor. They are a hilarious send-up of 19th-century English education, as captured through the lectures of the imaginary schoolmistress/historian, Miss Tickletoby. Readers who can remember Our Island Story may see some similarities …
Continue reading Miss Tickletoby’s Lectures on English History: The Anglo-Saxons
In 1842, William Thackeray published the second of his satirical pieces titled Miss Tickletoby's Lectures on English History, in Punch magazine, for which he was a regular contributor. They are a hilarious send-up of 19th-century English education, as captured through the lectures of the imaginary schoolmistress/historian, Miss Tickletoby. Readers who can remember Our Island Story may see some similarities …
Continue reading Miss Tickletoby’s Lectures on English History: Celts and Romans
What exactly is a monster? According to the Oxford English Dictionary it is an 'ugly or deformed person, animal or thing'. The narrator of the 14th century The Travels of Sir John Mandeville categorises a monster as 'a thing deformed against kind, both of man or of beast'. Given society's changing standards of beauty and …