19 October 2021
We are often asked what role the Falmouth Packet Service played in slavery. At one level, the Packet Service was simply a government-run postal service collecting […]
8 January 2019
The Groans and Grumblings of Jeremy Gribble[*], or The Miseries of a life at Sea. A splenetic composition ~~~~ Rundis, indigestaque moles[*] ~~~~~ Misery 1st. – […]
21 August 2018
Any reader of Patrick O’Brien’s Jack Aubrey novels will understand the elegant coincidence that Charles Darwin (a naturalist born in 1809) and James Williamson (a surgeon […]
19 August 2018
Negro song. Jack Ass, wid a long tail, Bag o’ Caco coming down. Dey teas-y me, dey worry me Dey take my dandy from me. Jack […]
19 August 2018
There are many customs now prevalent among particular classes of men, the origin of which is so obscure from antiquity or other causes, that it would […]
19 August 2018
By the Falmothians and others thereabouts hail drops are called Camborne boys. Camborne is a small place, a few miles from Redruth – but why it […]
19 August 2018
Cornwall is so famous for pies among other things, that it has been ironically said, that the Devil is afraid to shew his nose in that […]
18 August 2018
James Williamson gives this account of ‘smuggling’ from his time on HM Packet Duke of York. From the earliest establishment of the [Packets], [1] the spirit […]
17 August 2018
Pleasure I. – I have always considered the mere exemption from misery to be a positive pleasure – a truth verified in being relieved from all […]
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19 October 2021
We are often asked what role the Falmouth Packet Service played in slavery. At one level, the Packet Service was simply a government-run postal service collecting […]
8 January 2019
The Groans and Grumblings of Jeremy Gribble[*], or The Miseries of a life at Sea. A splenetic composition ~~~~ Rundis, indigestaque moles[*] ~~~~~ Misery 1st. – […]
21 August 2018
Any reader of Patrick O’Brien’s Jack Aubrey novels will understand the elegant coincidence that Charles Darwin (a naturalist born in 1809) and James Williamson (a surgeon […]
19 August 2018
Negro song. Jack Ass, wid a long tail, Bag o’ Caco coming down. Dey teas-y me, dey worry me Dey take my dandy from me. Jack […]
19 August 2018
There are many customs now prevalent among particular classes of men, the origin of which is so obscure from antiquity or other causes, that it would […]
19 August 2018
By the Falmothians and others thereabouts hail drops are called Camborne boys. Camborne is a small place, a few miles from Redruth – but why it […]
19 August 2018
Cornwall is so famous for pies among other things, that it has been ironically said, that the Devil is afraid to shew his nose in that […]
18 August 2018
James Williamson gives this account of ‘smuggling’ from his time on HM Packet Duke of York. From the earliest establishment of the [Packets], [1] the spirit […]
17 August 2018
Pleasure I. – I have always considered the mere exemption from misery to be a positive pleasure – a truth verified in being relieved from all […]