December 31st, 2009
Our sources revealed (some of them anyway)
With the passing of the old year and the arrival of 2010, Gerald and I have decided to fess up. Given the clamor from friends and foes about the nature of the sources we used in the research phase of our book, we have decided to provide some detail below. (Fussy antiquarians will recall that, [...]
December 10th, 2009
Noble powder of Jacobites, Despised by tyrants
Your evocative illustration of Gawith’s snuff on your last post and reference to “clouds of snuff” took me back nostalgically to my own snuff-taking days. For anyone interested in the lore of this form of self-indulgence, the virtually unobtainable volume Snuff Yesterday and Today, by C W Shepherd is a vade mecum. Published in London [...]
