Just out!
Contact Information
I welcome suggestions and feedback and will consider interesting guest posts. If you would like to email please click on the picture to view contact details.
Category Archives: History
The Original Foley Artists – The View from the Junkyard
Some new Windows into History content is now being posted on our sister site, The View from the Junkyard, eventually forming one integrated site. This is an ad free site, so will provide you with a more comfortable reading experience. … Continue reading
Posted in History
Leave a comment
Pliny’s UFO – The View from the Junkyard
Some new Windows into History content is now being posted on our sister site, The View from the Junkyard, eventually forming one integrated site. This is an ad free site, so will provide you with a more comfortable reading experience. … Continue reading
Posted in History
Leave a comment
The UFO Baptism – The View from the Junkyard
Some new Windows into History content is now being posted on our sister site, The View from the Junkyard, eventually forming one integrated site. This is an ad free site, so will provide you with a more comfortable reading experience. … Continue reading
Posted in History
Leave a comment
UFOs in Rome – The View from the Junkyard
Some new Windows into History content is now being posted on our sister site, The View from the Junkyard, eventually forming one integrated site. This is an ad free site, so will provide you with a more comfortable reading experience. … Continue reading
Posted in History
Leave a comment
The Film Rights War
New Windows into History content will gradually start to appear on our sister site from now on, The View from the Junkyard, eventually forming one integrated site. This is an add free site, so will provide you with a more … Continue reading
Posted in History
Leave a comment
The Gloucester Miser
Snippets 214. 184 years ago today, the “richest commoner” in Britain died. James (Jemmy) Wood made his money in banking, and had wealth of around £900,000. Calculating the value of that money in today’s terms is notoriously difficult, and depending … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century, Books, Britain, England, History, People, Snippets
Tagged Book of Days, Gloucester Old Bank, Jemmy Wood, Misers, Robert Chambers
Leave a comment
Life of a Fern Hunter
Snippets 213. The following quote is taken from Over the Sea and Far Away, by Thomas Woodbine Hinchcliff, published in 1876: Of all regions that I have as yet seen in the world there is nothing comparable to this Brazilian … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century, Books, History, Journals, Nature, Snippets, Travel
Tagged Brazil, Over the Sea and Far Away, Thomas Woodbine Hinchcliff
Leave a comment
A Love of Adventure
Guest Post 17. In the last half of the 19th century, if your surname was Lowther and you were male, you were most likely to be well-off, or even rich. The most famous Lowther, Hugh Cecil Lowther, the 5th Earl of … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century, Guest Posts, History, Travel
Tagged Airships, Cecil Lowther, Clement-Bayard, Cowboys, Scots Guards
Leave a comment
Giant Feet and Rhinoceros Gums
Max of the Month 7. When reading non-fiction books from the 19th Century, one finds no shortage of great writers who have now been largely forgotten. However, occasionally a writer comes to light whose work is so entertaining, and who … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century, Books, Britain, History, Humor, Humour, Max of the Month, People, Travel
Tagged John Bull and His Island, Max O'Rell, Women in history
Leave a comment
The Killer Leaf
Snippets 212. Thomas Woodbine Hinchcliff was a mountaineer, explorer and travel writer, who served as President of the London-based Alpine Club, the first mountaineering club in the world, between 1875 and 1877. During that time one of his several travel … Continue reading
Posted in 19th Century, Books, History, Journals, Nature, Snippets, Travel
Tagged Alpine Club, Brazil, Over the Sea and Far Away, Rio, Thomas Woodbine Hinchcliff
1 Comment
Windows into History 