Best of Recent Blogs #20

London Smog, December, 1952 [fab pics] by How to be a Retronaut
In the Roof of St Paul’s Cathedral by Spitalfields Life
“This enormous Babel of a place”, On learning of London before the Victorians by Suzie Grogan
The Clive Collection at Powys Castle, Wales by Diary of an Urban Genealogist
Young Henry Fielding’s Thwarted Abduction of an Heiress, 1725 by Two Nerdy History Girls
Journal of a Georgian Gentleman: newly-discovered blog by Mike Rendell, all about his ancestor, the subject of a new book
Hand D by Dainty Ballerina
Cyclopaedia: Ephraim Chambers and the ‘best Book in the Universe’ by Georgian London
From Dissenters to High Church by Silver Tiger
Widows and Tired Old Buns by Songs from the Howling Sea
London’s Most Famous Prostitute, “Skittles” by the Victorianist
The Widows of Victorian Railwaymen and the Struggle for Survival by Turnip Rail
“Careful Now” – The Movement of Gunpowder and Explosives on the Victorian Railway by Turnip Rail
Telephone Operators by Lee Jackson
Exhibition on the Life and Works of Richard Dadd by Essie Fox
King James I’s London – 3. Golf on Blackheath by Exploring London
Famous Londoners – Peter, the Wild Boy by Exploring London