Patent medicines are not, as the name would suggest, medicines that have been patented but rather they are commercial products...
When Charles I first introduced public mail service in 1635, letters were carried from one ‘post’ to the next ‘post’...
On 11 March 1864, just before midnight, the Dale Dyke Dam collapsed and a great flood surged through parts of...
There are a good many young women who seem to think that to ‘keep company’ with, and afterwards to marry,...
HAMMER AND FILE GRINDER Wanted, a steady, good WORKMAN. –Apply Monday afternoon, ROBERT RENTON, Yorkshire Hammer and File Works, Napier...
On 11 July 1778, W. Jackson, the proprietor of a store in High Street, advertised his wares in the Oxford Journal...