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27
Jun
2009
Wooden Toys are Making a Come Back - Learn Why  

7 days ago by dollreborn

Gen Wright asked: The price of the ideal candidate for good to the older it comes to choose from toy makers switched to development their imagination to encouraging young children can also it doesnt matter if you want because they come back and the older it is boy or kitchen play sets all allow chil ...

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26
Jun
2009
Will you have a cup of tea, Father?  

8 days ago by Nick

From Thomas Scot’s account of his role as intelligencer for the Council of State in the early 1650s, describing his network of spies and agents: For France there was one who went by the name of N. N., who had for a long time before (as I understood from Mr Frost) given Intelligence to the Committee ...

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20
Jun
2009
Mary Beth Norton: The Years of Magical Thinking: Explaining the … – ...  

14 days ago by paranominal

Mary Beth Norton: The Years of Magical Thinking: Explaining the …History News Network, WAShe is the author of Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society, and In the Devil's Snare: The Salem Witchcraft Crisis of 1692.] Most Americans' knowledge of the seventeenth c ...

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19
Jun
2009
American Antique Chairs  

15 days ago by admin

American Antique Chairs Chairs Chairs are often the most characteristic example of a given style era and therefore further space is devoted to them here than other pieces of furniture. Furthermore so many chairs have been made … » Read more >>American Antique Chairs « Posted in Articles

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17
Jun
2009
Shadows in the Torrid Zone  

17 days ago by ofsmith

The torrid zone was a term used to refer to the region between the tropics, as explained here by David Abercromby in his Academia scientiarum (1687): There are five Zones, one Torrid, two Temperate, and two Cold ones. The torrid Zone is comprehended between the two Tropicks; its breadth is 47 degree ...

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News networks  

17 days ago by Nick

A snippet on how far newsbooks were distributed in the late 1640s: Coventry December 15. The last Post here was intercepted a Packet of scandalous Books that were going to Lincoln, there was amongst them some book entituled, The Character of King Cromwell, The Woodstock Scuffle, and The Man in the M ...

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16
Jun
2009
Aromatherapy is an Ancient Art  

18 days ago by Cory

The history of aromatherapy is a long one as the natural use of plant oils has been used for more than 6000 years. They have long been valued as healing, cleansing, mood enhancing and preservative substances alongside the fact that some have the most pleasurable fragrances. Today’s modern world is n ...

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14
Jun
2009
John Morrill on revolt in the provinces  

20 days ago by Nick

John Morrill will be giving the Victoria County History’s Marc Fitch Lecture on 6 July 2009, on “The British Revolution in the English Provinces, 1640-9″. It’s at 6.30pm in the Clore Management Centre at Birkbeck. [ via] Posted in seventeenth century

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07
Jun
2009
Mr Barrington’s gelding  

27 days ago by Nick

I’m in the midst of writing up my dissertation, hence the lack of posts in recent weeks. Most recently I’ve been going through issues of Severall Proceedings in Parliament, a newsbook set up in October 1649 under the auspices of the Commonwealth’s new licensing act. It was licensed by Henry Scobell, ...

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04
Jun
2009
The Seventeenth Century  

30 days ago by Matthew

I discovered The Seventeenth Century courtesy of Halina and her team of devilish minions over at Glasgow PodcART a couple of weeks ago. I’ve tried emailing the band to see about buying a copy of their EP, but no response, so I ended up having to just rip it off MySpace. Still, I’m sure I’ll get the ...

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