Aug 22 2007
They Have Beer Over Here
I’m in London, nominally at the British National Archives at Kew, but also hopping about a bit to see if the rumors that the Brits make beer are true. Let me put that one to rest - the rumors are true. Actually the Archives are pretty amazing, as well. Today I was rummaging through the hand-written record of a naval court martial from 1796. A bloke next to me was working with scrolls of tax records from the late 1500s. Yikes. They have stuff going back to the Domesday Book from the year 1086. Tomorrow I’m off to the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich and Saturday up to Hartlepool, to see the HMS Trincomalee (and the Hartlepool monkey).
Still haven’t seen any Marmite, yet.
August 29th, 2007 at 21:06 pm
You gotta listen to the monkeysong! It’s on the Hartlepool webpage. The story behind it is disturbing, yet humorous…