Other Topics

Gentle reader: I continue to migrate content over to this new site. These indices are not yet complete.

You may click on the activated links below to view the content that has found a new home here, or find what you seek at the older site at www.larsdatter.com/18c/other.html.

Your humble ſervant,

Mrs. Harris

    • Agriculture, farming, gardening, and husbandry

    • Beekeeping

    • Candles and candle-making

    • Etiquette and manners

    • Soap

    • Life in 18th century America

    • Runaway ads

    • More primary sources, including letters and journals

    • Cookbooks

    • Beer

    • Bread

    • Butter churns

    • Chocolate

    • Coffee and coffeehouses

    • Gingerbread

    • Inns & Taverns

    • Mead

    • Punch

    • Spruce beer

    • Tea

    • Bubbles

    • Dolls

    • Board games

    • Playing cards

    • Kites

    • Pantin

    • Rattles

    • Additional toys and games

    • Chatelaines and equipages

    • Coats of arms as embroidered by New England schoolgirls

    • Dyes and dyeing

    • Housewifes (hussifs, sewing rolls)

    • Irons

    • Knitting (and knitting sheaths)

    • Knotting

    • Lacemakers

    • Laundry

    • Marks (initials/dates) on clothes and linens

    • Milliners and millinery shops

    • Patched clothing

    • Pincushions, and wearing pincushions

    • Sewing kits (including work-baskets, work-tables, hussifs, needlecases, etc.)

    • Spinning with a distaff and spindle

    • Wall pockets

    • Work-bags

    • Yarn-winding tools, including niddy-noddies and clock reels

    • Primary sources relating to candles and candle-making

    • Chambersticks

    • Lanterns

    • Bed warmers

    • Beekeeping

    • Birdcages

    • Blacksmiths

    • Books for young readers about 18th century life and history

    • Brooms

    • Babywearing and baby slings

    • Camp followers

    • Ear trumpets

    • Fishing & angling

    • Floor cloths

    • Flower sellers

    • Booths at fairs

    • Hornbooks

    • Ice skating

    • Knife grinders

    • Monochrome-Print Clothing

    • Mops

    • Napping

    • Peglegs

    • Pickpockets

    • Pottles

    • Printed art and other broadsides displayed on walls

    • Quilts: Patchwork and Wholecloth

    • Recipes for Fashion (1753)

    • Sedan chairs

    • Slipcovers

    • Tinkers

    • Toilettes, dressing tables, and dressing rooms

    • Wallets

    • Watering cans

    • Wheelchairs

Covent Garden by Pieter Angillis