Since its inception in 1348, the Order of the Garter has never been awarded to people of great literary, musical or artistic achievement. This is partly because other honours exist for such people. Had Shakespeare been a favoured courtier or ...
I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year, “Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown”. And he replied “Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the Hand ...
Two large potatoes pass’d through kitchen sieve, Smoothness and softness to the salad give; Of mordent mustard add a single spoon, Distrust the condiment that bites too soon; But deem it not thou man of herbs a fault, To add ...
John Worlidge’s ‘Systema Agriculturae’ is a seventeenth century guide advising ‘the Gentry and Yeomanry of England’ on all aspects of agriculture and farming. The work was first published in 1669 and was tremendously successful – within fifty years five editions ...