Pennmanship and The art of writing
Today, when pennmanship is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, and we type notes into our phones rather than write them by hand, we give little thought to handwriting.
Continue reading →Today, when pennmanship is rapidly becoming a thing of the past, and we type notes into our phones rather than write them by hand, we give little thought to handwriting.
Continue reading →The REAL twelve days of Christmas began on December 25 and continued to January 6!
Continue reading →Some suggest that the origins of Boxing Day can be found during the Victorian Era, but it appears to have begun much earlier.
Continue reading →In Jane Austen’s day, theaters prepared Christmas pantomimes (pantos) that would begin on Boxing Day and run as long as the audiences demanded them. Although pantomimes had begun as a crowd-pleasing mix of humor, mime, special effects spectacles, song and dance, based on the Italian commedia dell’arte, by the late Georgian era, the panto had become a well-established part of Christmas tradition.
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