Sarah Angleton
@SarahAngleton
Writer. Wife. Mother of two. Practical historian. Author of humor and historical fiction. Always carrying at least one book.
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The One Simple Trick Big Pharma Doesn't Want You to Know sarah-angleton.com/2025/10/02/the…
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The One Simple Trick Big Pharma Doesn’t Want You to Know
On September 25, 1878 readers of The Times in London could have read a letter written by physician Charles R. Drysdale, proclaiming tobacco use to be “one of the most evident of all the retro…
A few thoughts about the humble cheeseburger. #NationalCheeseburgerDay Have it My Way sarah-angleton.com/2025/09/18/hav…
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Have it My Way
In 1924, while working at his family’s roadside sandwich stand, The Rite Spot, in Pasadena on a part of the famous Route 66, 16-year-old Lionel Sternberger made history when he placed the fir…
It's a difficult Thursday for blogging. Not Quite History Yet sarah-angleton.com/2025/09/11/not…
At Least it Didn't Take Eighty Years: A Bathroom Renovation Adventure sarah-angleton.com/2025/09/04/at-…
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At Least it Didn’t Take Eighty Years
In 1872, Dr. François Merry Delebost was serving as the chief physician for the Bonne Nouvelle prison in Rouen, France when he had a pretty great idea. Every day about nine hundred prisoners engage…
I'm Not Quite Sure How to Say This... sarah-angleton.com/2025/08/28/im-…
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I’m Not Quite Sure How to Say This…
In 1837, chemists and business partners John Wheeley Lea and William Perrins decided to clean out the piles of forgotten treasures and banished mistakes from the basement of their pharmacy in Worce…
This one is for all the parents missing their young adult fledglings. Staring at the Wall sarah-angleton.com/2025/08/21/sta…
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Staring at the Wall
On August 22, 1911, artist Louis Béroud intended to spend his day at the Louvre, working his way through mimicking the paintings in one of its many galleries. He’d chosen Salon Carré, the room in w…
Ah, the adventures of parenthood. And canoeing into trees. Down the Creek Without a Paddle sarah-angleton.com/2025/08/14/dow…
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Down the Creek Without a Paddle
It’s been a big couple of weeks in the house of practical history. If you’ve followed this blog for long you’re probably aware that I have two sons. When I started this thing way …
That time I stumbled into a movie set while on vacation in the middle of nowhere: Murder Free Since 1952 sarah-angleton.com/2025/07/24/mur…
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Murder Free Since 1952
Last week I had the opportunity to squeeze in a quick girls’ trip with my sister and our aunt and cousin to spend a few days exploring Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Our home base was an adorable rent…
Don’t Call it a Comeback sarah-angleton.com/2025/07/03/don…
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Don’t Call it a Comeback
Hello blogosphere! I know it’s been a hot minute since I appeared in this space. It turned out I needed the break. I also have had less time to write as I spent the last school year working full-ti…
Paradise on the Pike received a really nice review from the Historical Novel Society! #1904WorldsFair #TBR #BookReview historicalnovelsociety.org/reviews/paradi…
At Some Point I'll Be Back to Title This Post sarah-angleton.com/2025/01/23/at-…
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At Some Point I’ll Be Back to Title This Post
In 1880, led by then University President Charles W. Eliot, Harvard began a program of granting sabbatical to its professors. A concept derived from Old Testament Biblical tradition, this year of r…
Where my grammar nerds at? A Preposition Proposition sarah-angleton.com/2024/12/05/a-p…
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A Preposition Proposition
There’s a video put out by the folks of Miriam-Webster that has been floating around. It’s worth a little thinking about. It suggests that, despite what your third grade teacher taught …
We Don't Need No Hatchetations sarah-angleton.com/2024/11/07/we-…
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We Don’t Need No Hatchetations
On June 7, 1900 the clientele of Dobson’s Saloon in Kiowa, Kansas got something of a shock when a tall, possibly slightly unhinged woman entered the establishment with a hymn on her lips and …
There are at least some things we can more or less agree on. Well, there's one thing. Maybe. Except apparently not. The Dark Days Ahead sarah-angleton.com/2024/10/31/the…
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The Dark Days Ahead
It’s election season once again here in the United States, with early voting already in full swing, and most people convinced that the nation will fall if their pick for president doesn’…
In which half the words are in a language I will never understand. This Post is Fire. No Cap. sarah-angleton.com/2024/10/10/thi…
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This Post is Fire. No Cap.
Lately I’ve been feeling my age pretty keenly. It’s not that I’m old, but I am solidly middle-aged, not yet quite to the morning/evening pill divider, but well beyond the days of …
Here's a little article I wrote for booksbywomen.org. Write Local by Sarah Angleton - go.shr.lc/4eF2nC8 via @shareaholic
The true story of two unfortunate typos. One Wicked Omission sarah-angleton.com/2024/09/26/one…
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One Wicked Omission
A few weeks ago in this space, I posted a piece about Taylor Swift and the history of public education in the United States. Except that apparently I didn’t. A few hours after the post went l…
In which something is revealed that a powerful person tried to keep secret. Just Don't Tell the Historians sarah-angleton.com/2024/09/12/jus…
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Just Don’t Tell the Historians
Many things likely happened in the year 1404. Numerous babies took their first breaths and plenty of people surely took their last. Battles were waged and both won and lost. Some powerful people be…
Recently, I got together with some pretty important ladies for afternoon tea. Overcoming the Hangries sarah-angleton.com/2024/09/05/ove…
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Overcoming the Hangries
It was sometime in about 1840 or so that Duchess of Bedford Anna Maria Russell found herself getting a little hangry. At the time, surging industrialization had begun to transform the daily schedul…
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