TIMELINE
Family Home of Thomas Blake Glover 1838-1911 at Glover House in 1864
Thomas Blake Glover an intriguing influence on the Meiji Restoration. mining, ship-building and Mistubishi with his family home in Aberdeen.
Read MoreScotsmen Thomas Blake Glover, Mitsubishi and Kirin Beer
Outstanding Scotsmen and the Far East seem to go together in the 19th and early 20th centuries, being responsible for business and trading companies that are still thriving today. Thomas Blake Glover was one such man, arguably responsible for much of the success of the Meiji Restoration and the overthrow of the Shogun and forming the basis of the new and open Japan and it’s industrial success that continues to this day…
Read MoreJohn Speed Maps Online
The fascinating maps of John Speed have been beautifully digitized by Occidental College Library Los Angeles. Now having looked at the maps of Ralph Agas, we ask was there a connection between the two?
Read MoreThe Remarkable Influence of Sir Joseph Banks
The remarkable influence of Joseph Banks, explorer, botanist and ‘enlightened’ man, stretched itself over a multitude of disciplines and ages. The connections he made heralded a new wave of thinking about science which still impact today…
Read MoreFoundling Hospital a home for children…
The Foundling Hospital for children, in many ways, epitomises the change in thinking that came out of the period of Enlightenment. People such as John Locke, stirred the conscience of a society and resulted in a more liberal thinking where deeds and actions spoke loudest.
Read MoreIntrepid Explorer Isabella Bird
Isabella Bird Victorian explorer. Women trail blazers are not recognized in the same way as their male counterparts. Many Victorian and Edwardian women undertook fascinating journeys to explore remote regions of the globe.
Read MoreChildren Lost and Found Notices
Lost children of the C19th. How heartbreaking it must have been to lose a child in the seething populace of London but how did a poor family go about finding their lost child. A little piece of ephemera had us on the trail….
Read MoreVictorian Women and the Professions. The Female Doctor
The first female doctors of the C19th. Why were women excluded from the professions in the first half of the C19th and when did it change?
Read MoreWhat is a ‘Field Day’? A Military Connection…
Having a ‘field day’, just what does this mean?
Read MoreInstructing The Volunteer Regiments – check out the uniforms….
The Volunteer Regiments and their intriguing uniforms 1860
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