Double, Double, Bubble Trouble
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD That time Annette was the only historian in the audience for a history lecture, surrounded by worried finance wizards
Non-Boring History
Join renegade historian and Brit in the US Dr. Annette Laing on her witty history mystery tour. Substack Featured Newsletter.
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See Yourself in Britain?
Virtually come along for the ride!
The Sounds of Music (and People)
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Annette unexpectedly enjoys a museum she didn't expect to
Oversexed, Overpaid, and Over Here?
Annette speaks tomorrow, Sunday, August 2! Plus a very strange and wonderful coincidence when an old book jumps off the shelf
The Kids Are All Right (Except Billy)
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Teenagers asked: Why is Billy the Kid allowed to overshadow one of America's most extraordinary stories? A great question
No Americans, No Party?
Reminder: Annette's online talk about that time Americans invaded England in 1942 Happening tomorrow (Sunday)! Plus: Being American in London in 1900
Visiting London (1900 Style)
ANNETTE TELLS TALES Long before Rick Steves, Lonely Planet, and online influencers, the ghostly "father of tourism" was showing Americans the best of England's capital
Breaking and Making Ties
ANNETTE TELLS TALES Annette riffs on a fantastic book on family and slavery in early New England. You won't see slavery or freedom the same way again.
Culty McCultface
ANNETTE TELLS TALES Annette contemplates cultishness (oh, and mark your calendar for a Nonnies-only event!)
The Big Bed of Marketing
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD A small business thinks up a great hook to attract customers (and gets a shout-out from Shakespeare)
Joy in Changing Times
Thinking about song, dance, and good cheer, through good times and bad
Tasty Transatlantic Fantasia
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Baking joy, building, and creating community against all odds, with an imagined past in a small American town
No Will Fyffe, No Party
Now Scottish football fans have charmed Boston, meet the comedian who helped Scots, Americans, and even the English love the people behind the stereotypes
No Walk in the Park
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD/MEET HISTORIANS Finding historian John Hope Franklin, horrifying history, and hope, in Oklahoma
Death of a Historian
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Gordon S. Wood, and fighting the death of history
Get Out and Meet Yourselves, America!
Plus: Update on Freedom Trucks
Trucking With History
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD A celebration of America's birthday in a big truck with some history in it
We Demand A Human Life
ANNETTE TELLS TALES Feel like you're living to profit strangers? Fed up of performative slop? Enslaved people in colonial Massachusetts want a word. Yes, Massachusetts,
Et Tu, César?
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Another Historical Great Man turns out to be not all that great. Annette visits the César E. Chávez National Monument in California
Humble Dining with Great Men
ANNETTE ON THE ROAD Don't expect world leaders with our burgers and fries, do we?