This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Oddities and notices from a bustling year
A collage of curiosities and short items including a non-reciprocated love, a Thames alligator sighting, a Good Friday fire destroying four Hampton houses, patent antics, budget telegraphs to Bombay, Greenland whalers’ success, an aerolite report to the National Museum, a dangerous pamphlet in Paternoster Row, and various social and legal quips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thames
Hampton
America
Civil Service Supply Association
Paradise
Clapham and
Wandsworth Commons
Museum of Science and Art
San Enoven
Ohio
South London
Liverpool
John Pritchard
Howe-street
Dover
102Nd Regiment
India
Stroart
Daily News
Alba
James II
Stuart
Charles I
Senrietta Maria
Philip I
Orleans
Anna Maria
Victor Amalius
Savoy
Sardinia
Victor Emanuel
Mary Beatrice
Francis
Duke of
Modena
Henri
Count de Chambord