Regular stories from the hidden corners of history. Histories uses the words of those who were there; The History of Things explores aspects of everyday life.
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The elephant in the room, 1826
I’ll be honest: this isn’t a very happy story.
It begins in 1810, with the voyage of a recently commissioned East Indiaman merchant ship, the Astell, under Captain Robert Hay. The ship sailed to both Chennai (then Madras) in India and Beng...
A history of… air conditioning (Part 2)
In my previous piece I explored how humans had chilled things prior to the invention of mechanical cooling – often with incredible ingenuity and stunning feats of engineering. Today I’ll be digging into how modern cooling came about.
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Dirty eructations, 1793
A couple of months ago I wrote about the travel writer Thomas Pennant, marking his 300th birthday and quoting from one of his tours of Scotland. Now I’m just back from my own tour of that fantastic nation (I lived there 30 long years ago an...
A history of… air conditioning (Part 1)
As I write this England is in the middle of its fourth1 heatwave of the year, with temperatures hitting 38° celsius (100° Fahrenheit). Now I realise the citizens of other, generally hotter, countries (particularly the US and Australia) can...
Bloody, but unbowed, 1875
In my last two pieces I looked at aspects of the life of Kenneth Grahame, creator of The Wind in the Willows (namely, being held up at gunpoint and the sad story of his son). But if it hadn’t been for one of Grahame’s early mentors, that in...
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