Toll house, Blists Hill Victorian Town, Ironbridge © A Knowles (2018) What was a turnpike road? A turnpike road was a toll road opera...

The Gordon Riots from The Chronicles of Crime or The Newgate  Calendar by C Pelham illustrated by Phiz (1841) For a week in June 1780...

Front cover of Ackermann's Repository Volume 5 (1811) Ackermann’s Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions...

The auditorium of the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds On our way back from holiday in Norfolk, my husband Andrew and I managed to squeez...

Ladies in a phaeton from Gallery of Fashion by Nikolaus von Heideloff (1794) It is impossible to write a novel set in the late Georgia...