Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Unavailable
    Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear
    Unavailable
    Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear
    Unavailable
    Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear
    Audiobook2 hours

    Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear

    Written by Elizabeth P. Archibald

    Narrated by Graeme Malcolm

    3.5/5

    ()

    Currently unavailable

    Currently unavailable

    About this audiobook

    Want to know how to garden with lobsters? How to sober up? Grow a beard? Or simply how to make a perfect omelet? Look no further. Rather, look backward.

    Based on the popular blog, Ask the Past is full of the wisdom of the ages--as well as the fad diets, zany pickup lines, and bacon Band-Aids of the ages. Drawn from centuries of antique texts by historian and bibliophile Elizabeth P. Archibald, Ask the Past offers a delightful array of advice both wise and weird.

    Whether it's eighteenth-century bedbug advice (sprinkle bed with gunpowder and let smolder), budget fashion tips of the Middle Ages (save on the clothes, splurge on the purse) or a sixteenth-century primer on seduction (hint: do no pass gas), Ask the Past is a wildly entertaining guide to life from the people who lived it first.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateMay 5, 2015
    ISBN9781478987116
    Unavailable
    Ask the Past: Pertinent and Impertinent Advice from Yesteryear

    Related to Ask the Past

    Related audiobooks

    Humor & Satire For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Your Pick Me ups

      Oct 12, 2023

      It’s officially spooky season! If jump-scares aren’t your thing, why not head down to Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire for a spook-tacular trail in the grounds of the magnificent 18th century property. As darkness falls and a chill descends over the pa

      2 min read

    • Article

      Frank Bits

      May 31, 2020

      Frank Bits
      13 min read

    • Article

      Patrick’s Pages

      Dec 17, 2021

      THE INTERNET has a lot to answer for, but we’ll never know how much unintended damage was done by the Victorian equivalent when our worried ancestors looked for help and advice. Enquire Within Upon Everything – a tome found on the bookshelves of many

      5 min read

    • Article

      What's TRENDING?

      Jul 11, 2019

      Every year, London sets aside August bank holiday for one of the world's largest street carnivals from 25 to 27 August. One million people yearly attend this celebration of Caribbean heritage on the streets of Notting Hill. Highlights include Caribbe

      1 min read

    • Article

      Editor's Letter

      May 3, 2023

      Tell us what inspires you in this issue of H&A. Tag @homes_antiques on Instagram or use the email address, right There is a rule of thumb in the world of antiques – or perhaps it's just a convenient excuse – that three is the magic number when it com

      1 min read

    • Article

      Top Tipples

      Nov 2, 2023

      Want to know the best boozers around? Publicans Dale and Holly have picked their top five watering-holes that you need to visit. In no particular order, of course! You could be on to a winner and start your very own crawl… A community local and heart

      1 min read

    • Article

      Travelling & Time Travelling

      Aug 13, 2021

      I hope that your summer is going well, even really well, perhaps with the chance to get out and about and explore. I hope you’ve managed to feed ‘body’ with cream teas from National Trust tea shops and ‘soul’ with visits to archives and historic prop

      1 min read

    • Article

      Best Before

      Feb 5, 2024

      Best Before
      3 min read

    • Article

      Antiques Journal

      Mar 2, 2023

      TALKING SHOP In a 1750s Georgian merchant’s house on Fore Street, Kingsbridge, Devon, is Mark Davies Antiques, home to a wonderful array of countr y house antiques. Popular with home makers and interior designers alike, among the shop’s specialities

      3 min read

    • Article

      Warm Your Cockles

      Oct 5, 2023

      Warm Your Cockles
      3 min read

    • Article

      Ordinary ANTIQUES FOR EVERYDAY USE

      Sep 20, 2022

      My partner and I use antiques and vintage pieces every day at home and beyond: from wine glasses to vintage pens, cutlery, crockery and bags. And we love them, as do our family and friends. Not only do our antique alternatives fulfil the same purpose

      9 min read

    • Article

      What’s TRENDING?

      Mar 23, 2023

      What’s TRENDING?
      2 min read

    • Article

      Whisky Business

      Oct 1, 2023

      Resembling a brittle and beautiful wooden flower, the Japanese chasen is a whisk that has been used to prepare delicious matcha in Japan since the 15th century. The meticulous art of chasen-making is pretty mind-blowing: each of the whisk’s bristles

      3 min read

    • Article

      Antiques Journal

      Sep 7, 2023

      Antiques Journal
      3 min read

    • Article

      Antique Row

      Oct 1, 2019

      Every square inch of The Annex Antiques and Interiors is cluttered, cramped, and packed full of treasures. There is something fascinating to see in every crevice of this store, so keep your eyes peeled for vintage glassware, furniture, jewelry, cloth

      2 min read

    • Article

      Five Poems

      May 1, 2022

      Mulholland burns. Getty nudesstand sentinel in ash. Marie Antoinette’s porcelainin jeopardy a second time. What a shame to watchher lover’s pillow burn. From the hilltop museum,it’s difficult to tell the city from plywood empirebacked by buttresses.

      1 min read

    • Article

      Antiques Journal

      Oct 5, 2023

      Antiques Journal
      3 min read

    • Article

      Antiques Journal

      Nov 3, 2022

      Antiques Journal
      3 min read

    • Article

      Money-saving Tips

      Apr 11, 2024

      MARTYN Lewis here, the newsreader, not the money saving expert who’s quite litigious when it comes to people impersonating him online and in the media. As the Cost of Living crisis continues, it’s becoming harder and harder to keep our budgets in ord

      2 min read

    • Article

      A Darling Little Village

      Sep 15, 2023

      A Darling Little Village
      5 min read

    • Article

      Train Of Thought

      Oct 27, 2019

      Train Of Thought
      3 min read

    • Article

      James Pembroke

      Aug 24, 2022

      OYSTER-SHUCKING TIME The worst five words in the English language? Simple. ‘Shall we skip the starters?’ On hearing this, put your napkin on top of the table and exit. The best words? ‘Let’s get half a dozen oysters to kick off!’ Then, of course, sti

      2 min read

    • Article

      Country Queries

      Dec 15, 2022

      Country Queries
      2 min read

    • Article

      Cape Crusader

      Nov 26, 2020

      CHRISTMAS, APPARENTLY, and I can’t even. I’m not talking everyone else’s can’t even: all this “Boohoo, Christmas is cancelled, life has lost all meaning” shtick. I’m talking, “Christ, really? We’re still doing this shit about some weird Palestinian c

      3 min read

    • Article

      Sporting Answers

      Jul 14, 2021

      Sporting Answers
      9 min read

    • Article

      Chit Chat

      Aug 10, 2023

      Chit Chat
      2 min read

    • Article

      Join The Club

      Oct 20, 2021

      A century ago, Brooklands, just outside Weybridge, Surrey, was the Ascot of motor-racing. The world’s first purpose-built motor-racing circuit opened in 1907. Nowadays, Brooklands – which closed as a race track to convert to an aircraft factory durin

      3 min read

    • Article

      Spring

      Jan 27, 2022

      About 20 miles north of downtown Houston, Spring is a charming suburban area with a remarkable history and culture. While not an official town but instead a “census designated place,” the unincorporated Spring area has a population that tops 60,000 a

      2 min read

    Reviews for Ask the Past

    3.5/5

    6 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      3.75 Stars A humorous collection of quirky and random "how-to" snippets from history. The passages range from relatively normal to outrageously ridiculous. Arranged in no real order, but each one comes with some interesting illustrations and funny commentary. A good choice for a history buff's coffee table.Net Galley Feedback