The Historic Preservationist

A description of 5 years of furniture-making training at one of the most infamous trade schools in the world, a few favorite professors and some opportunities that followed.

Mary becomes Queen of England and creates blue and white delftware rooms that were hidden from sight into her eutopia.

The assembling and eventual unveiling of Queen Mary’s delftware collection.

Descartes attempted to study false proofs within the scientific method. Bathsua Makin, she founded a school dedicated to the education of society women.

By the early 19th century British industrialization began to decline opening technological advancements and markets to the rest of the world.

Gournay was unique for her time, a woman writing essays. Much of her later focused on translation of classic literature dealing with philosophical truths.

Bacon developed the Baconian method, a reductionist methodology, stating the key to making scientific discovery was deduction and careful. research

Montaigne was an intellectual and essayist who grew up disappointed by the decline of the European Renaissance.

The republic of letters was a long distance network that connected intellectuals in Europe and America throughout the centuries of the enlightenment.

Major social thinkers of the day influenced mass social upheaval in pursuit of equality and human rights.

I Reunited with a grand piano that I first saw and touched in Colonial Williamsburg when I was 4 years old. A Muzio Clementi piano dated 1799.

It was was common place in the city of Delft that if a Potteries husband passed, the widow had the option to take over the business, this was unheard of anywhere else in the world at this time.

A huge magazine of gunpowder explodes leveling half of the city of Delft. Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, Barbara Rotteveel began setting up a Blue and White business, teaching herself everything from artistry, production to bookkeeping.

This episode takes us through the Delftware pottery business; retail, manufacturing and live arrangements in the 17th century. Also, the raw material , clay was everywhere.

Part of the Dutch society’s success, business educating young women and developing trade routes around the world.

The development of Coke iron was a major driving force of the Industrial Revolution beyond steam. Other industries that pushed the revolution forward; pottery, upgraded Roman concrete, paper making , printing, and glass manufacturing.

The revolution took off with the development of early steam pumps aiding in efficiency of horse-power per coal usage ratio. The steam engine was later refined by James Watts, apply its applications to power production and vehicles for the road. Also, a much efficient loom was invented that a single person could produce fabric.

Britain led the development of the industrial revolution due to a capitalist society that would lead to consumerism leading to all other countries in the world. This occurred while they had a highly adaptive and innovative agrarian society which led food production in the world. As urbanization occurred, timber became scarce and expensive, coal the last piece of the puzzle became the impetus prope...

In the end all the pre-war boundaries remained the same and the American side drew very close ties with Britain.

After many battles for the Americans, some won, some lost, the chief thread was the lack of organization. They learned better to have a united military of America then individual state’s militias.

The American navy while under equipped, scored many battle victories on the open seas and interior lakes. In the end of the war, the British have to return any land gains they had made.

The last battles of the war of 1812 occurred in the south, positing Native American tribes with the British against Native American tribes with Andrew Jackson.

This episode highlights constant skirmishes and battles between the British-Canadian-Native American and the Americans.

The women behind the history of Blue and White Delftware.

All the critical dates and events of the war are listed from beginning to end.