Daily Life Archive
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Renaissance Clothing at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Posted on July 6, 2014 | No CommentsExploring some of the fashion of Renaissance England at the V&A Museum in London. -
Never the Twain Shall Part: A Comparison and Analysis of Irish and English Marriage Laws Following the English Conquest of Ireland
Posted on June 13, 2014 | No CommentsThe expansion of English rule into Ireland during the reign of the Tudors has generated a tremendous amount of historical writing. Within this subject, several schools of thought have emerged. One has examined the English invasion in light of the Tudors themselves. -
Georgian Christmas: An Eighteenth Century Celebration
Posted on December 22, 2013 | No CommentsDuring the Georgian period (1714-1820), it was often incorrectly assumed that Christmas wasn’t celebrated with as much gusto as during the Victorian era. Although traditions, foods and celebrations differed, Christmas was actively commemorated during this period. -
The Guinea Pig as a pet in Tudor England
Posted on August 23, 2013 | No CommentsA little known painting of three Elizabethan children containing what may be the first portrait of a guinea pig has been uncovered by the National Portrait Gallery in London. -
Long-lost toys of late-Victorian children discovered by archaeologists
Posted on July 18, 2013 | No CommentsA collection of long lost toys, just unearthed by a team of archaeologists at The University of Manchester, have shone new light on the commercialisation of childhood by the late Victorians. -
The rise of agrarian capitalism and the decline of family farming in England
Posted on May 22, 2013 | No CommentsThe rise of agrarian capitalism and the inter-related topics of the growth of large farms and the decline of the English peasantry have been the subject of very extensive investigations by historians of rural society since the early years of the twentieth century. -
Mistresses and marriage: or, a short history of the Mrs
Posted on May 22, 2013 | No CommentsThe word 'mistress' has a multi-layered history. Today, it generally refers either to a woman an illicit sexual relationship, or, more rarely, to someone who is in perfect control of her art. Both the sexual connotation and the inference of complete competencei date back to at least the later middle ages.
