Showing posts with label clerks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label clerks. Show all posts
Saturday, 16 January 2010
Diary of a Clerk
The lovely people at Westminster Archives are also web-publishing the diary of a Victorian clerk, albeit not a potential murderer. What are the chances? Read the (ok, somewhat humdrum) story of Nathaniel Bryceson here.
Wednesday, 20 May 2009
The (Victorian) Office
THE (VICTORIAN) OFFICE
An addition from the worthy Edmund Yates on the rather easy-going life of a government office clerk. The clerks of the 1850s were, according to one voice in this piece, a degraded set of youths, 'a set of book-reading young thieves, whose sole pleasure consists in attending lectures or going to humbugging dancing-parties'. Preserve us from such disgusting creatures!
An addition from the worthy Edmund Yates on the rather easy-going life of a government office clerk. The clerks of the 1850s were, according to one voice in this piece, a degraded set of youths, 'a set of book-reading young thieves, whose sole pleasure consists in attending lectures or going to humbugging dancing-parties'. Preserve us from such disgusting creatures!
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