One brass hearth & creepers, brass slice and tongs”….. – 5th March 2017
“One brass hearth & Creepers brass Slice and Tongs – £01 01s 00d” While working on transcription of an …
Time for ….. tea, coffee, chocolate? – 12th March 2017
I have recently come across several inventories that tell me that in the kitchen are to be found a coffee …
Huckaback or Harateen? 19th March 2017
Inventories often feel to me like someone opening wide their front door and inviting me in to their homes, …
In the kitchen, one dog wheel – 12th February 2017
A 1732 Bristol merchant’s inventory has ‘In the Kitchen’ “One Dogg wheel in a frame” – valued at 6 shillings. …
How many kilderkins in a hogshead – 5th February 2017
Inventories frequently throw up unusual words. You may well have heard of hogsheads, but do you know now many kilderkins …
Sir Henry Brown Hayes 1762 – 1st February 2017
Are you sitting comfortably? Then I shall begin. Once upon a time there was a wild young man who lived …
And so to bed – February 19, 2017
And so to bed…. …. but to what type of bed? Inventories often detail the number and sort of bed …
New beginnings – January 29, 2017
Having lost the old blog, it is time for new beginnings. In the weeks and months to come you will …
A viking ship burial
A viking ship burial – July 10, 2017 Last week we walked around Balladoole, near Castletown on the Isle of Man, …
I like Twitter, surprising but true
I really like twitter. I never thought I would hear myself saying those words, but it is undeniable. For years …
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