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*Racist golliwog dolls have resurfaced in England following a recent police raid at a popular pub. According to the Huffington Post, the dolls are patterned after 18th Century minstrels and were ...
It began with a late 18th century version of a social media blast — word of mouth and occasional shouts to passersby encouraging their attendance at a new show by fresh-faced performers moments ...
1.This 18th century fire alarm that you'd need to hit with a hammer to alert the village of a fire: ...
Like today, 18th-century laws about pregnancy aimed to control women Questions of fetal life were unsettled under English common law — and today’s rulings go far beyond consensus of the time ...
Indigenous leaders exchanged gifts and wisdom about the land and animals with their French and English allies during the 16th through 18th centuries. These exchanges had lasting implications.
DUBROVNIK, Croatia (AP) — A sunken 18th-century boat has been discovered by chance near the majestic stone walls of Croatia's medieval city of Dubrovnik.
A trove of gold and silver coins that experts believe were swindled out of an ailing population by an 18th-century conman has been discovered in central Poland, officials said. Volunteer metal ...
Although by the fourteenth century, minstrels had passed the time of it's greatest glory, which had been the period of the troubadours, the courts of kings and nobles were still the center of ...
From a 16th-century village house in Widdington, Essex, to a medieval manor house in Fardel, near Dartmoor, eight of the best properties for sale with minstrels' galleries.
Discover showtimes, read reviews, watch trailers, find streaming options, and see where to watch The Edison Minstrels (1913). Explore cast details and learn more on Moviefone.
THE HARP THAT ONCE—Howard Mumford Jones—Holt ($3.50). THE MINSTREL BOY—L. A. G. Strong— Knopf ($3.75).The middle half of the 18th Century, in Europe, was a kind of waiting time ...
At the turn of the twentieth century, blackface minstrel performances were incorporated into vaudeville acts. They frequently featured in some of Minnesota’s most famous theaters, such as the ...