Historical Hussies

Jane Austen's writing table, copyright Donna Hatch by Donna Hatch www.donnahatch.com In a time before phones, email, text messag...

Inspired in part by the frigid temperatures a lot of the country is experiencing right now, I thought I’d tell you how in 1816, parts of Nor...

I was lucky enough to spend almost a year in Yorkshire back in my younger days, and I blame Disney for that. Due to having seen The Horsemas...

by Donna Hatch www.donnahatch.com An odd Christmas custom that dates back centuries is telling scary ghost stories. Have you not...

          Posting a letter in Regency England was not as simple as walking down to the local post office and dropping off a stamped letter....

by Donna Hatch www.donnahatch.com When Rome occupied England, the mineral baths in the English town now known simply as Bath was a ...