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A Few Conundrums
What did people do for fun before the television and the internet were invented? A popular pasttime was trying and guessing riddles and conundrums. These could be quite complicated and take ages to...
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Madame Elisabeth Of France (Part 2)
Madame Elisabeth's tranquil and pious life was marred by tragedy in 1787, when her niece Sophie, the youngest daughter of her brother Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette, died. The royal couple...
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Historical Reads: An Educational Game of Vice & Virtue, 1818
Two Nerdy History Girls have discovered a nineteenth century board game created to teach children morality. To quote:This is the playing board for The NEW GAME of VIRTUE REWARDED and VICE PUNISHED,...
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At Last He Grew So Enormously Corpulent
In his later years, Henry VIII, due to the large amount of food he ate at banquets and a nasty wound in his leg that prevented him from exercising, grew fat. Here's how historian Lingard described the...
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Movie Review: The Madness Of King George
King George III is remembered for two things: losing the American colonies and going mad. It's his first bout of madness that is the subject of "The Madness of King George". Although described as a...
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Book Reviews: Back From The Brink & Living With Your Body And Other Things...
Hello everyone,today we're gonna take a break from history. Instead, I'd like to talk about two books dealing with two issues very close to my heart: depression and poor body image. If you suffer from...
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Death Of Prince Albert
On 14th December 1861, Queen Victoria lost Prince Albert, the love of her life. A few days later, on the 20th, the Queen poured out her grief in a letter to their uncle, King Leopold Of...
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Madame Elisabeth Of France (Part 3)
In July 1793, the revolutionary government decided that the Dauphin should be separated from his family. Marie Antoinette fought like a tiger to prevent it, but to no avail. When they threatened her...
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Historical Reads: Mary Boleyn And Henry VIII
Over at the Anne Boleyn Files, Claire Ridgway discusses Henry VIII's relationship with Mary Boleyn. To quote:It appears to have been a known fact that Henry VIII had slept with Anne’s sister, but this...
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Follow Me On Twitter
Hello everyone,I took the plunge today and finally joined Twitter. Follow me @giorgiahaot to keep up with what I'm up to, as well as the latest history news. I look forward to chatting with you all!
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Do Good By Stealth, And Blush To Find It Fame
In 1773, the Hotel-Dieu, the most ancient hospital in Paris, was burnt down. Marie Antoinette donated money to the sufferers, as she told her mother in a letter:"All the newspapers have spoken of the...
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Victorian Wedding Dresses
I love wedding dresses. I've been fantasizing about what I'd wear to walk down the aisle (not that that's gonna happen anytime soon) ever since I was a little girl and Yes To The Dress is one of the...
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Book Reviews: The Pride Of The Peacock & The Story Of Music
Hello ladies and gentlemen,today I'm reviewing a classic historical romance written by the queen of the "romantic suspence" genre Victoria Holt, and a new nonfiction book about the history of Western...
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M. Beaulard, The Inventor Of The Bonnet A La Bonne Maman
Madame Bertin wasn't the only popular dressmaker in France. Monsier Beaular was a talented designer with a lively imagination too. He was often criticised for it, but his clients loved his artistic and...
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Rosalie Filleul
Born Anne-Rosalie Bouquet in Paris in 1753, she was the daughter of Blaise Bouquet, the owner of a bric-a-brac shop and an ornamental painter. Rosalie inherited a talent for art, which she showed at a...
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Historical Reads: Elizabeth Campbell
Heather Carroll remembers actress Elizabeth Campbell, nee Gunning, who went on to marry the richest men in Scotland. To quote:Elizabeth and her sister may not have necessarily been good actors, but...
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Anne Seymour Damer
Born in 1748 in a Whig family, Anne Conway was the daughter of Henry Seymour Conway, a cousin of Horace Walpole. The little girl was given a good education. Her favourite subject was art history. In...
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Regency Slang (Part 2)
I've already written several posts about slang and colloquial terms used during the Regency era, but I have barely scratched the surface. There are so many that I would still like to share with you....
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Book Reviews: The Forbidden Queen & Breakthrough Communication
Hello everyone,ready for today's reviews? Here we go then:The Forbidden Queen by Anne O'BrienCatherine of Valois is now relegated to a footnote in history. That's because we don't really know much...
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Four Times Of The Day by William Hogarth
Four Times Of The Day is a series of paintings, which were later engraved, by William Hogarth. Unlike some of his other series, such as A Harlot's Progress or Industry And Idleness, the Four Times Of...
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