Posts by Pamela
Merry, Happy, Jolly, Blessed
My Own True Love and I are setting off on another holiday adventure. I don’t plan on writing blog posts while I’m away. (Unless I come across something that you need to know RIGHT NOW! Which is always possible. There is a lot of history out there.) But I’ll be back on January 3 with…
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A Year in Review: 1919
I almost decided not to do a podcast looking at 1919, even though it has been on my editorial calendar* since roughly this time last year. My friend Elizabeth Lunday is doing an amazing job looking at 1919 in detail and from many different directions on her podcast The Year That Was. It is living…
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A Year in Review: 1819
In the history book in my brain, 1819 is dominated by the Peterloo Massacre. England suffered a severe depression at the end of the the Napoleonic war, as a result of the transition to a peacetime economy. The sudden drop in government spending and the loss of wartime markets for British grain and manufactured goods…
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