Digging the Dust
Gems from the dust-heap of history
Sunday, June 27, 2021
A Charming Count, Courts and Cannibals
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While researching a Captain McNevin for my Skelendipity blog on family history, I came across a number of reports in American newspapers re...
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
The Ironbark Brig from Manning River
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This small advertisement appeared in a number of Liverpool, UK, newspapers in August of 1845. For SALE The new Brig BENJAM...
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Taking the waters
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As we hunker down hoping to avoid a deadly 21st Century disease, our ancestors were no strangers to doing the same in order to avoid a ran...
Saturday, February 1, 2020
"Like pearls on velvet" - the Russian Irishman
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John Field is a name that may be unfamiliar to many music lovers, but he deserves to be rediscovered and played more widely. He is c...
Saturday, October 12, 2019
All in a day's work ... "Doctor, you are murdering me!" (Excursions into the Petty Sessions Part 3)
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Another “medical man” with the first name of Charles, lived in the same town of Maldon and appears in the Victorian Petty Sessions registe...
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