Early Modern Whale

Having recently finished Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall , one of thi...

“A certaine simple woman having some stals of Bees...

I used to have my own copy of Daniel Hahn’s The Tower Menagerie , a book mainly ...

Mistress Beast did exist, and we will come to her in a moment. This post might have been titled ‘The Wo...

Here's a diablerie out of William Winstanley, Historical rarities and curious observations domestick & foreign (1684), a rat...

On an impulse, cycling past on an unaccustomed route back from work, I stopped at th...

A page from the apothecary and gardener John Parkinson’s beautifully illustrated Parad...