[PDF] Englands Gazetter eBook

Author : Adrian Teal
Publisher :
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 2014-11
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : 9781783520817

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Many of us think of the ill-behaved celebrity and the tabloid splash as modern inventions, but the antics of footballers and soap stars are as nothing when set alongside the hell-raising of the 18th century celebs. The Gin Lane Gazette is stuffed with true stories of boozy MPs who settled their political differences with duels in Hyde Park; peers of the realm who sat the unburied corpses of their cherished mistresses at their dinner tables; entertainers who rode horses standing upright in the saddle, while wearing a mask of bees; and famous courtesans who ate 1,000-guinea banknotes stuffed into sandwiches, simply to make a point. Before it was dashed from their lips by the Victorian party-poopers, our Georgian forebears drank deep from the cup of life.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Sagwan Press
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 11,69 MB
Release : 2018-02-09
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ISBN : 9781377272085

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