Sir Gideon Sydney Stafford Smythe
Research into my favourite era of British history - 1750-1850 - often reveals that especially in the earlier part of those 100 years, the Georgians and Regency periods, society had fun. Louch, wild and abandoned fun. So much so the Victorians had to clean up the Empires act (or at least close the shutters to what went on and write about morality). It was with this in mind, that I had a notion to have some fun myself and for a friend's birthday recently I had a go at writing a pamphlet. Pamphlets were common during this time, with little regulation or curbing of reach, style and topic. A deregulation and disruption which is very much repeated today through podcasts and social media; nothing really changes throughout history. The pressing thought of mine was of which topic to chose for my pamphlet? Well I decided on a much overlooked genera of writing - nature-watching-non-fiction-comic genera reveal of the 1800's. I'm not sure it will be a best seller, but I enjoyed the qui...