Brian Tomlin | January 31, 2014
January 11. Charing Cross railway station, a central London railway terminus in the City of Westminster,opened. The original station building was built on the site of the Hungerford Market by the South Eastern Railway. The station was designed by Sir John Hawkshaw, with a single span wrought iron roof arching over the six platforms on its relatively cramped site. It is built on a brick arched […]
Brian Tomlin | January 20, 2014
“The elegance with which a dinner is served is a matter that depends, of course, partly on the means, but still more upon the taste of the master and mistress of the house. It may be observed, in general, that there should always be flowers on the table, and as they form no item of […]
Brian Tomlin | December 30, 2013
December 1. First steam passenger railway opens in New Zealand. December 4. A storm causes major damage to the coast of the Netherlands December 8. Fire at the Church of the Company (Jesus Church of La Compana) in Santiago, Chile. It is the largest fire ever to have affected the city of Santiago. Between 2,000 and 3,000 people […]
Brian Tomlin | December 28, 2013
In 2013 the blog published the first seven parts of a ten part series on what homes looked like and how they functioned. How They Lived (Part 1) and Styles and Conventions (Part 2) showed us that home ownership was much less common than it is today and largely dependent on where you lived and […]
Jake Wynn | December 20, 2013
The men of the 96th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry struggled to keep warm on the evening of December 24, 1861. A frigid wind howled across the ridges and farms of Northern Virginia that Christmas Eve. Within their newly completed winter quarters, the hearty men of central and eastern Pennsylvania huddled next to blazing campfires, in a vain […]
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