Notes from an isolated country
An unplanned detour with this post, thanks to a serendipitous find in a box of books from an auction. “Chance found me at Hedon”, indeed! My friend Greg has an incurable addiction to buying cheap job lots, and I get to rake through them for the good stuff. By which I mean not the expensive…
It’s my turn this month for the Hedon History Talk, and we’re going to the Magdalen Fair! What began as a medieval feast day for the Blessed Mary Magdalen turned into a week of the most amazing sights you could wish to see in Georgian England: death-defying feats, giants and dwarves, waxwork spectaculars, anarchic puppet…
Thanks to everyone that came to my talk on sin last month! I thoroughly enjoyed researching it, particularly the evidence for women bearing illegitimate children. This rabbit hole produced a ton of material that there wasn’t time to cover, so here are the stories behind some of the “troublesome” women of Hedon, their fate and…