Simon Murphy

This is a small miscellany of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century newspaper articles taken from scrapbooks made by a man called Cox. The font is a bit annoying -- I don't mind s+t and c+t ligatures, but s+p ligatures are taking it too far. I thought it was interesting that in the eighteenth century people in Birmingham gave up rum and sugar to try to decrease the economic reasons for slavery. Also on the 14th July 1817 the Morning Chronicle had an advert for the exhibition of a Sapient Pig at show more Charring-cross. It includes a poem that starts "Hail, Toby! truly sapient Pig!". show less

Selections from a large series of scrapbooks of English newspapers cvompiled by a man named Cox 1822 0=-1834