“The Duke of Bedford… has stopped up the road from Southampton-row to Somers-Town. This, though called a private road, and… READ MORE
The branches of protestant Christianity generally lumped together and described (particularly when discussing the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Britain)… READ MORE
On September 26th 1969 a mini-riot broke out among pupils at Philip Magnus School, Clerkenwell, after they had got into… READ MORE
Upon their arrival in the English capital, delegates were set the ‘psychogeographical’ task of locating the British Sailors Society, where… READ MORE
As we wrote in a previous post, the satirical magazine, the Craftsman, opposed to the corrupt regime of prime minster… READ MORE
Sometimes, open defiance is the only option. And even if they see you, you might as well deny it. “WILLIAM… READ MORE
As we commented in a previous post London’s eighteenth/early nineteenth century theatre audiences were often rowdy, unruly, fond of breaking… READ MORE
In September 1773, the actor and impresario David Garrick got into a dispute with the Westminster magistrate John Fielding, over… READ MORE
A fibre-glass statue of former Prime minster Winston Churchill locked into a straitjacket was banned from display in London’s Trafalgar Square… READ MORE
At the end of WW2 there was massive homelessness around the country – a pre-war shortage of housing had been… READ MORE
"People ask me what I do in the winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
~ Rogers Hornsby
A passionate baseball fan blog celebrating America's favorite pastime.