Last year I got interested in a the regional costumes of Noord Holland, affectionately known as the “Cheese Girls”. I recreated that outfit and wrote about it here. Because I was under some time constraints, I...
Read MoreAndrew Boorde, physician to Henry VIII, travelled across Europe in the 1500s and then wrote an ‘itinerary’ to help other travellers understand the people of the countries they’d be visiting. His book includes...
Read MoreWhile I was randomly wandering around the internet yesterday I stumbled on the Old Maps Online site. It’s lots of fun. It’s an interactive database of maps published between 1000 and 2010. You can choose your...
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