From the archives of All Things Georgian, 'The Beautiful Mrs Graham' - wp.me/p3JTNy-74s #MondayBlogs
A full-scale working recreation of John Harrison’s 1735 H1 sea-clock goes on display in London, bringing one of horology’s great breakthroughs back to life
A cup of tea anyone, made the 18th century way? - wp.me/p3JTNy-3d4 #InternationalTeaDay
Phoebe Hessel: Brighton’s 108-Year-Old Soldier
Today’s article is about Phoebe Hessel who lived a remarkable life, in part as a man. According to her grave, she was born in 1713, so right at the end of the reign of Queen Anne and lived long enough to see George IV become king in 1821. If her age…
Phoebe Hessel: Brighton’s 108-Year-Old Soldier
Today’s article is about Phoebe Hessel who lived a remarkable life, in part as a man. According to her grave, she was born in 1713, so right at the end of the reign of Queen Anne and lived long enough to see George IV become king in 1821. If her age…
Transported for stealing boxes of matches. Shipped to the other side of the world, never to return. The history of penal transportation is dark, brutal and surprisingly well documented. Out now – essential reading for true crime fans and family historians drangelabuckley.substack.com/p/getting-th...
Having taken a look at my favourite subject – hot chocolate, it’s now time for a post about eighteenth-century tea drinking. At the beginning of the 1700s, according to the Daily Coura…
Today’s article is about Phoebe Hessel who lived a remarkable life, in part as a man. According to her grave, she was born in 1713, so right at the end of the reign of Queen Anne and lived long enough to see George IV become king in 1821. If her age was correctly noted in the parish burial register, then she died at the incredible age of 108, in Brighton, Sussex. Phoebe was one of the most prominent Brighton characters in the 18th and early 19th centuries, as this inscription on her tombstone in the parish church yard attests to and was known to almost everyone in the town and surrounding villages.
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Today’s article is about Phoebe Hessel who lived a remarkable life, in part as a man. According to her grave, she was born in 1713, so right at the end of the reign of Queen Anne and lived long enough to see George IV become king in 1821. If her age was correctly noted in the parish burial register, then she died at the incredible age of 108, in Brighton, Sussex. Phoebe was one of the most prominent Brighton characters in the 18th and early 19th centuries, as this inscription on her tombstone in the parish church yard attests to and was known to almost everyone in the town and surrounding villages.
Clifton Parish Lower churchyard, also referred to as ‘The Strangers Burial Ground’
Today I am delighted to welcome back Dr Paul Main, a regular guest to All Things Georgian to share more fascinating information about Bristol. Paul has contributed several articles previously, such as The Romantic…
Today I am delighted to welcome back Dr Paul Main, a regular guest to All Things Georgian to share more fascinating information about Bristol. Paul has contributed several articles previously, such as The Romantic Poets in Bristol and The Story of the Hotwell at Bristol which if you haven't read them already, they are fascinating, so do read them, In Bristol, Clifton’s parish church (dedicated to St Andrew, and located in Lime Walk) had a small burial ground and by the last quarter of the 18th century an extension had to be found for the increasing population of the parish and for those who died whilst being treated at the Hotwell Spa…
