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Georgian and Victorian Britain

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Georgian and Victorian Britain is a personal blog at about1816.wordpress.com about history. Since 2019, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-02-16, and you can follow it by feed.

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2019–2023first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2021

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Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog's posts on Georgian and Victorian Britain, such as its guide to the coaching inn. One comment quotes a passage on the Swan with Two Necks inn's horses and supply network.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Britain 1700-1900 with an emphasis on the radical

What Hacker News says?

  1. PeterHolzwarth · 2021-09-25
    In another article on that blog, the author hints that it was all quite organized: " William Waterhouse of the Swan with Two Necks Coaching Inn owned 400 horses, which he used to pull stagecoaches for their first part of the journey out of London. By 1817 he claimed to be spending £2 per horse on food, accommodation, tax .Waterhouse had distribution centres all over the Home Counties, including a warehouse in South…

    Comment linking /2018/09/12/back-from-obscurity-thomas-dawkins-agricultural-labourer-and-convict1796-1820/

    on “A Guide to the Georgian Coaching Inn”
  2. solvent · 2021-05-25

    Submitted Drunk as a Lord: the Regency Bottle Men as a story · 80 points

    HN discussion
  3. breathenew · 2021-11-10

    Submitted A Guide to Your 1816 Stagecoach Journey as a story · 61 points

    HN discussion
  4. ascertain · 2019-04-20

    Submitted A nice cup of tea in the Regency? Not always as a story · 43 points

    HN discussion
  5. nonoobs · 2021-09-25

    Submitted A Guide to the Georgian Coaching Inn as a story · 42 points

    HN discussion
  6. rwmj · 2022-03-12

    Submitted The Sun-Spot Panic of 1816 as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  7. breathenow · 2022-02-17

    Submitted The Regency Pilchard as a story · 12 points

    HN discussion
  8. rwmj · 2023-10-24

    Submitted The Georgian Childhood of William Hutton as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. rwmj · 2022-10-01

    Submitted The slow progress of cremation in Victorian Britain as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. rwmj · 2022-02-08

    Submitted 1816 Stagecoach Journey Part Three – Injury and Death as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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