2nd May 2018
I have been quiet on here for some time but I have not been idle. I am just putting the finishing touches to a new book, Endeavour: the Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World. It is going to be published by Chatto in the UK on 23 August and in the US shortly after at a date soon TBC. In Endeavour I have tried to do two...
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(As reported in the Hereford Journal, Thursday 12 October 1786 - Illustration from The Monsters of the Deep, 1875) A description of Sea Monster found in Cornwall The following comes authenticated from a Gentleman of Morillian in Cornwall. A JUST and particular description of a very curious and most surprising sea monster...
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![Historical Miscellany #40 – Snowball the Greyhound [1829]](http://peter-moore.co.uk/wp-content/themes/petermoore/thumb.php?src=http://peter-moore.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/Wolds-940x588.jpg&h=304&w=710&zc=1&q=90 "Historical Miscellany #40 – Snowball the Greyhound [1829]")
I was cheered to find out last week that “the best greyhound there ever was”, according to Bell’s Life in London, was called Snowball and came from the pretty village of Wold Newton in the east riding of Yorkshire. This is just a few wolds away from where my mother grew up and I was back in Yorkshire last week starting...
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![Historical Miscellany #39 - Damn'd Eyes [1766]](http://peter-moore.co.uk/wp-content/themes/petermoore/thumb.php?src=http://peter-moore.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Oddingley-940x705.jpg&h=304&w=710&zc=1&q=90 "Historical Miscellany #39 - Damn'd Eyes [1766]")
Image: A field in Worcestershire From Adams Weekly Courant, 25 March 1766, taken from The Gloucester Journal "We have an account of a very extraordinary instance of Divine vengeance that happened about a week ago at Chalford in this county. One Richard Parsons, a young man of that place, was playing at cards, and he most...
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![Historical Miscellany #38 - An Essay on Blockheads [1802]](http://peter-moore.co.uk/wp-content/themes/petermoore/thumb.php?src=http://peter-moore.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Gillray-Blockheads.jpg&h=304&w=710&zc=1&q=90 "Historical Miscellany #38 - An Essay on Blockheads [1802]")
(Image: "Punch Cures the Gout" by James Gillray) (The following essay we copy with much approbation from the New York Evening Post) A blockhead is neither an ideot, nor madman. He is one who goes on through the broad road of life with the rest of mankind carrying a load of follies at his back, which he knows not how to get rid...
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