Well my’dears, yesterday was I reminded that I have writ in my Journal only once since the Great Changes which have come about in my life! I can scarce credit it that such a passage of time has flown by. Nor can I believe that this journal, to write which…

In my second year in China I offered an elective called, rather baldly, ‘Propaganda’. I’d floated the idea the preceding semester with colleagues (and, naturally, the Vice Chancellor), so there was nothing subversive about it. I lectured on the vast subject of the English Language. Propaganda is an aspect of…

Mrs. Simpson’s Journal, Spring 1832 Since I were in my seventh year of life until a scant number of months ago, the entirety of my life has been one of constant busy-ness. …

After I had writ in my journal the last time, it did strike me, of a sudden, that whosoever doth read these pages after me, might not be abiding in Brighton and may not know of our Dark Heart. For such it be: a-pulsing away right in the middle of…

Though once the haunt of Royalty before Our Prinnie was King, at our core we’re naught but a small fishing community here in Brighton. …

From Mrs. Simpson’s Regency Diary. February 1830 Now then, I know I promised Miss Cireena that I would confine myself to speaking only of the past for the nonce. But I simply cannot find it in me to resist the urge to respond to a Learned Person who hath written about Us! The Serving Class!! …

Our life together in our little cottage in County Cork was one I could only compare with those of the people in our local village. To be…

How I Lived my Early Life. I had thought it enough to say where it was I started out in life, but my Lady’s maid, Mary-Ann, says I must speak a little of how we lived.For …

The fourth in a series of monthly blogs. June 2018 Each year, at the Regency Town House, the marvellous Mrs. May presents a display of historical costumes from her private collection as one of our most looked-forward-to Summer events. This year she was again joined by Sarah Tobias for a presentation of both the fashions and inventions which sprang up…