If, during the later years of the nineteenth century, you had made your way to Walworth Road and, seating yourself upon a step or perhaps a folding-stool, had observed the local citizenry going about their business, you very likely would have noticed a short, stout, very florid fellow in a cream-coloured suit and a scarlet […]

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Hello, FrillyShirteans! (I feel as though my readers ought to have some sort of club name, like the Nerdfighters – something like the Gilded Pangolins or the Farcical Researchers. Though, admittedly, my readership is small enough that you could all basically just learn each other’s names without too much trouble.) I have an excellent little […]

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