You can see the rails from which the bed curtains would have been hung. That will have been a post-war addition. Originally the beds would not have had individual curtains. The idea of providing patients with privacy became much more important after the foundation of the National Health Servi...
on Sunday morning last […] instead of finding service being conducted there, as he expected, he found the men sitting reading the papers, spitting about the floor, and indulging in ribald and indecent talk. The women were also engaged in reading the papers.[34] The papers in question were...
By the end of 1897 building had progressed to the point where plumbing and plastering work was being carried out. Yet more controversy occurred when the clerk of works, Adam Nichol, was dismissed from the board’s service as the project drew to an end. The committee argued about whether or...
and an inexpensive postal service led to the practice of sending Christmas Cards. Father Christmas, formerly a feature of adult celebrations, gradually became interchangeable with the American Santa Claus and delivered presents to good boys and girls, in accordance with his description in “A Visit ...
Ripper Street returns for a 4th Season on January 15, 2016 onAmazon Prime. A new episode will be added to the streaming service every Friday for a total of eight episodes. Courtesy of Amazon BBC America’s compelling crime dramaRipper Streetis set in the seething backstreets of Victorian Lond...
His intellectual force and his high aspirations38 would have shone in the public service; and at least they won him thus early the affection of the noblest among his compeers, and a fame that is almost unique in English literature. Much has been written about the society which these young ...
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