Category: 18th Century Diary

  • Christmas Day

    Christmas Dinner from Tom Coady on Vimeo. all trimmings

  • Boxing Day

    Boxing Day Lunch from Tom Coady on Vimeo. Watch the room appear to darken as the sun comes out.

  • Reconciliation

    Was called to Mary Sheat at the Palace and afterwards I waited on the Bishop. And he talked about the ingrateful and villainous action of Sam Hill in clandestinely marrying my daughter to Mr. Burland. Though the rift was to last nearly a year there is an interesting entry only 15 days after it began…

  • Barbarossa & Crusades

    Tuesday 29 May 1945 By today my will power is defeated. I lay in bed when I should have been up for early Mass. I gave in a nasty exercise on turning parts of Hannibal and Epaminondas into ‘oratio obliqua”. Betty had practically done it for me the night before in the library. Eileen Betty’s…