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Know Your Onions - Susan Watkin
"Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management" was and is hugely popular. "Know Your Onions" contains recipes and household hints from books and magazines published from about 1820 to the 1860s; books and magazines that may have influenced Mrs Beeton. Some of the recipes and household hints are from Samuel Beeton's "Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine" and may well have been contributed by Mrs Beeton herself.
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And the Baboon Played Chess with the Emperor - Susan Watkin
A modern recreation of a Victorian scrapbook made up of cuttings from books and magazines published in the early to mid nineteenth century. You will come across such delights as the artificial duck that ate, drank and quacked; the tax on bachelors; early attempts at ballooning. And of course the baboon playing chess with an Emperor. |
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Old Groaners - Susan Watkin
"Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management" was and is hugely popular. "Know Your Onions" contains recipes and household hints from books and magazines published from about 1820 to the 1860s; books and magazines that may have influenced Mrs Beeton. Some of the recipes and household hints are from Samuel Beeton's "Englishwoman's Domestic Magazine" and may well have been contributed by Mrs Beeton herself. |
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Trust in God and keep Your Powder Dry - Susan Watkin
I recently bought an album of opinions hand-written in the last decade of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the twentieth century. I would guess that the album was started by a teacher (Maria G.), and that the other entries are by student teachers based in the London area. The album offers a fascinating glimpse into the interests of "normal" people of the time. |
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Brief Lives of Bourne People - Rex Needle
A book about the men and women who helped shape the Bourne we know today, from the earliest times through to the present day. Many of those featured are known to us and many are not but all played their part in the life of this town in years gone by, from Hereward the Wake who flourished in the 12th century to one of our longest serving councillors, Marjorie Clark, who died in 2007. |
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Stamford, Bourne and the Deepings: Landscapes and Legends - Rex Needle
Written by local historian Rex Needle and illustrated with a series of watercolours by the Rutland artist Alan Oliver. The result is this beautiful volume of almost 100 pages in full colour and printed on art paper to ensure that the paintings are shown to their full effect. |
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Tales of Bourne from Past Times - Rex Needle
A substantial work running to some 200 pages with 150 illustrations in colour and black and white, and deals with people, places, events, disasters and public services, as well as Bourne at war from the imperial conflicts of the Victorian age through to the two world wars of the last century. |
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The Bourne Chronicle - Rex Needle
an illustrated history of this town in dates and events compiled by local historian Rex Needle, from the earliest times to the present day with pen portraits of many people who have played their part in the life of the town and a description of how Bourne looks today. |
