Reduced to Ashes and Rubbage
Jessie Childs: Civil War Traumas, 3 January 2019
Battle-Scarred: Mortality, Medical Care and Military Welfare in the British Civil Wars
edited by David Appleby and Andrew Hopper.
Manchester, 247 pp., £80, July 2018,978 1 5261 2480 7 Show More
edited by David Appleby and Andrew Hopper.
Manchester, 247 pp., £80, July 2018,
“... and a date: 1633. This was the year a local gentleman, Sir John Reresby of Thrybergh Hall, began to note the contents of his garden. Every peach, pear and plum is catalogued, as are herbs, shrubs, bulbs – ‘Kentish Codlings’, ‘the Granado Gilliflower’, ‘Melincholly Munkes hoode’ – and attempts at grafting and inarching. According ... ”