Orphans in Eighteenth-Century London
March 17, 2020
Stella Tillyard— On a bleak spring evening in 1741 a crowd gathered in a dark, narrow London street. At its edge well-to-do City merchants on their way westward through Hatton… READ MORE
Tag: English history
Æthelred, the Unready?
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Levi Roach— Æthelred initially identified himself and his counsellors as the guilty parties and set about remedying his ways, restoring church lands, promoting new figures, fostering reform and making amends…. READ MORE
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