Bossy Little Books
Jenny MayhewExploring old instruction manuals on manners and morals
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Tony Blair’s bossy book
Published a couple of years ago in 2024, Blair’s handbook On Leadership has ancient precedents. It follows the speculum principis tradition of providing a “mirror for a prince” , i.e. an instructive model for princely behaviour, in the form...
WORK
Industrious Jenny, by George Walker c1792. Yale Center for British Art. Public domain via Wikimedia (I share the sitter’s name, but emphatically not her sewing skills)
Now that we’re into September and leaving the summer hols behind, I tho...
Freemasons
Meeting in Freemasons’ Hall c.1800. Metropolitan Museum of Art, public domain via Wikimedia
My previous blogpost looked at am-dram, and this one’s about freemasonry. Flighty, eh? Jumping from one topic to another. Randomly leaping between...
'Watch the exits and entrances!'
Postcard of amdram group Riley’s Revellers, photographed in the early 1900s by Fred Palmer. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Prologue: Ladies and Gentlemen, our tale begins upon a humble stage, erected within the drawing room of Squire...
How to party in postwar Britain
Food rations in wartime 1944
Christmas in wartime 1944
Butlins holiday camp (Yorkshire) reopens 1945, having been requisitioned for military training during the war
As the second world war came to an end in September 1945, and a cash-str...
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