by CCash | Apr 7, 2025 | Detailed Show Notes
Roads They talk about “pavement” but what they meant was gravel. Major roads, like Cheapside or Broadstreet would be gravel, but most of the roads were just mud. Famously the Strand, was mud right through the 16th century. You have to watch your footing. After the...
by CCash | Apr 7, 2025 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
In Shakespeare’s plays, he talks about “Travel” or “Traveller” just under 80 times, including references that suggest people travelled by foot and by horse, the Queen Mab speech by Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet talks about a wagon used for transportation, and there are...
by CCash | Mar 20, 2023 | Blog, Podcast Episodes
Access over 150 additional episodes in our back catalog on Patreon! Join today at http://www.patreon.com/thatshakespearelife In 1594 and 1595, when William Shakespeare was 31 years old, fires tore through his hometown of Stratford Upon Avon, causing such destruction...
by CCash | Apr 5, 2021 | Alls Well That Ends Well, Blog, Podcast Episodes
This week is Part 2 in our 2 part series on John Harington, the man who invented the first flush toilet in England. Our guest, Bob Cromwell, is back again this week to take us back to 16th century England and explore the exciting life of John Harington beyond his...
by CCash | Mar 8, 2021 | Detailed Show Notes
Why, they will allow us ne’er a jordan, and then we leak in your chimney; and your chamber-lie breeds fleas like a loach. Second Carrier Henry IV Part 1, (II.1) Toilet at Little Moreton Hall. | Little Moreton Hall is a moated 15th and 16th-century half-timbered manor...
