Miscellaneous items I found of interest during the week.
A medieval cold and flu remedy
10 Websites For The History Of Ordinary People
Early estate maps of Dumfries-shire, 1760s-1820s added to NLS maps.
Ancestry updated England & Wales, Civil Divorce Records, 1858-1918 (90,710 records) and UK and Commonwealth, Law Examination Records, 1836-1947 (537,286 records.)
Gmail’s AI-powered spam detection is its biggest security upgrade in years
Today in Ottawa History: The YMCA —YWCA
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Thanks to this week’s contributors: Alison Hare, Ann Burns, Anonymous, Brenda Turner, Christine Jackson, gail benjafield, Lolly Fullerton, Teresa, Unknown.
I imagine that second recipe for congestion might actually work … must have smelled interesting, though, with the warm ale…
About the YM and YWCA, I had not knonw that Budge Crawley was involved with either organization.
I was surprised to read about the Roman Catholic objections to both organizations, which I had known about either. Surely Catholics were always considered Christians, weren’t they? Cheers anyways, BT