It’s World Book Day, which means I am frantically trying to wrestle my youngest child into a costume that he is not entirely sure he...

As many of you know, the Lady’s Magazine project began as an effort to provide an annotated index of all of the text content of the...

Many of the Lady’s Magazine project’s followers do so because they are interested in fashion. That’s hardly surprising, really. The...

It’s been quite a while since our last blog post. Team Lady’s Magazine spent most of the summer working really hard trying to complete...

Sadly, good news stories are rare these days. So when they come along, I tend to cling to them like precious cargo that can keep me...

Dickens and Thackeray famously set their differences aside on this staircase (© Athenaeum Club) In standard accounts of...

The frantic barking of the dog at the sound of the doorbell today didn’t result in the usual volley of curses but saw me leaping out of...

Working on The Lady’s Magazine project this May and June has led me down all manner of bizarre eighteenth-century rabbit holes, and no...

We’ve been very busy in the last few weeks. And as the Lady’s Magazine project races towards completion in September 2016, I have been...

As we enter the last few months (gulp!) of our project, new discoveries are throwing themselves at us at a pretty alarming rate. A number...

Cardiff Castle; LM VII (1776): 428. Image © Adam Matthew Digital / Birmingham Central Library. Not to be reproduced without permission....

Koenraad, Jennie and I asked the audience to look at the volumes in groups of six to ten – each table was able to have two copies of the...

Back in February of this year, Steve Hewlett’s interview of Stephen Hull, Editor-in-Chief of the Huffington Post UK, for the BBC’s Media...

In the past few weeks, the social media pages of academics have been buzzing with commentary on the ‘CV of Failures’ that was published...

Yet once the difficult decisions are made, how can we disseminate a database with tens of thousands of items, belonging to dozens of...

In the 1830s, in India, an anonymously published book entitled Santa Sebastiano was sold at auction. It had two eager bidders who did not...

It is a truth universally acknowledged – by epidemiologists, at least – that the ‘first case’ is never the first case. For example, the...

Beautiful Dundee, by B4bees on Flickr (click pic for link) We are approaching that time of the year again. Every year from spring to late...

One of the fascinating, yet easily overlooked, genres of the Lady’s Magazine is that of the acrostic (or, as they are often termed,...

© Lucie Whitmore Sometimes there are benefits to spending far too much time on Twitter, and I was so excited when earlier this year I saw...