Boston 1775

This week the city of Boston’s archaeology program is undertaking a dig at the Loring Greenhough House in Jamaica Plain . According to th...

And still speaking of Horace Walpole , Lady Louisa Stuart , daughter of the Earl of Bute , had more to say about him. In 1837, Lady Louisa...

Speaking of Horace Walpole , last week I received a packet of postcards from Strawberry Hill, that gentleman’s British estate, in thanks for...

Here’s a brief return to the series of postings about George III ’s speech to Parliament on 31 Oct 1776 and the Whig opposition’s response...

Yesterday I quoted the portion of the article in Richard Draper ’s Boston News-Letter for 8 Nov 1764 discussing how kids these days were t...

The 8 Nov 1764 Boston News-Letter included this commentary on how the town had come to celebrate the 5th of November: Monday last being the...

Back in May , I reported on the city of Quincy’s decision to commission a statue of Abigail Adams to fit with the statues of her husband Jo...

The last major speech in the House of Commons on 31 Oct 1776 about the American War came from Charles James Fox , an opposition Whig (but ...

As Parliament ’s 31 Oct 1776 debate over the American War went on, the next speaker was Sir Herbert Mackworth , recently made a baronet. T...

After King George III had opened Parliament on 31 Oct 1776 with the speech quoted yesterday , the House of Commons debated how to respond....

On 31 Oct 1776, Parliament opened a new legislative session. King George III addressed the assembled House of Commons and House of Lords. ...

Starting next week, the Associates of the Boston Public Library will host free performances of Ian Ruskin’s one-person show, To Begin the Wo...

Here are a couple of items from Revolutionary War archeology . After the Battles of Saratoga , the “Convention Army” of Crown prisoners of...

On Saturday, 29 October, the Wayside Inn in Sudbury will host the annual Revolutionary War reenactment known as the “Battle of Red Horse Tav...

I’ve been discussing the historical background behind Lillian de la Torre’s mystery short story, “The Great Seal of England .” In 1943 De l...

In addition to the theft of the Great Seal of Britain, discussed yesterday , the writer Lillian de la Torre took inspiration from two other...

Edward Thurlow (1731–1806, shown here) entered Parliament in 1765 and quickly made a name for himself as a Tory by defending the governmen...

Lillian de la Torre Bueno (1902–1993) grew up in Manhattan reading mystery stories. After teaching in the New York schools for a few years...

One of the most important books about Revolutionary New England is coming out in early November, and came out almost fifty years ago. Ro...

In August, I passed on news about the sudden closing of a small post office near James Madison ’s Montpelier. The stated reason was an exh...