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After what feels like years of doing very little and months’ of writers block, I have decided to write about something that I love; something that I simply cannot start my day without. Coffee. It is true what people say; by the time you have drunk a few thousand cups of it, you cannot liveContinue reading “‘Would you like the Coffee to have in or to go?’ The History of Coffee”

Now the UK is on lockdown, I thought it would be a perfect opportunity to focus my attention once again to my blog. Being stuck at home for days on end has led to me researching everything that my dad likes to collect; from brown wooden boxes, to Toby Jugs. What puzzles me the mostContinue reading “‘Dad, Why is the House Full of Cigarette Cards’?”

Today, many people eat dinner in front of the television. Eating around the table surrounded by our family and friends happens infrequently and for some just once a year on Christmas Day. We have such hectic lives that eating for pleasure rather than survival has become a norm. Yet, in the nineteenth century, evening dinnerContinue reading “The Victorian Dinner Party”

Beauty is one of the most profitable industries in the twenty first century, with a combined net worth in 2019 of 532 billion pounds worldwide. I personally spend hours scrolling through Beauty Bay and Feel Unique looking for the next best thing to ‘save my skin’ or ‘to brighten my face’. Each product is advertisedContinue reading “‘If Makeup Could Kill’ A Look at Sixteenth Century Makeup”

Instagram is full of celebrities, from the likes of Molly-Mae to Victoria Beckham. We think of celebrities as a twenty-first century phenomenon when in fact, the eighteenth-century was just as troubled with this same obsession. Social influencers were as important as they are today. They may not have had a million followers liking their picturesContinue reading “‘Use the Code ‘GracieT’ for 10% off’: Grace Tosier, the Eighteenth-Century Social Influencer”

I am a Public History MA student, studying at Royal Holloway University of London. My areas of interest lay with the Early Modern Period. The Title of the Blog is ‘The Boujee Bourgeois’. Every month, the blog will look at different aspects of middle-class life in the Early Modern Period, ranging from the obsession withContinue reading “About the Blog”