Emily Brand's Blog
July 24, 2013
The History of Love
Dear Readers, I have been a sporadic poster (postress?) of late, & as the vast majority of my work now …
June 11, 2013
The Drunken Fellow, 1797
This Historical Drunkard of the Day is particularly close to my heart, hailing as he does from my beloved Oxford: …
June 10, 2013
Why ladies fancy a man with mustachios, 1707
“If you find him with Mustachios, he’s certainly a Size above ordinary in his own Conceit; aye, and is fancied …
May 27, 2013
Considerably Intoxicated, 1832
Historical Drunkard of the Day: - detail from ‘The Six Gradations of a Drunkard’, 1832
May 21, 2013
Uncommon Drunk, 1832
Just because I think he’s great.
May 1, 2013
The lewd women made me do it, 1752
Poor old James Holt, a man who went to the scaffold not entirely convinced that the death sentence was the …
April 22, 2013
Champaign Driving Away Real Pain, 1825
“Wine Cures the Gout, the Colic and the Phthisic, Wine is to all men the very Best of Physic.” - …
April 15, 2013
A Scene on the Main Deck, 1824
“EXPLANATION.– In the fore-ground are three Seamen playing at cards, one of whom, by the archness of his countenance, appears …
March 25, 2013
Beware the ‘Squeaking Woman’!! (1728)
In eighteenth-century London, it seems it was not only the living who were disturbing the peace – the city also …
March 19, 2013
Drunken Lovers, 1798
“Observe how I step in the Line, Though eight Quarts I have carried away; O Bet! you will never be …
