1805 journal

It’s a new year and it’s time to get out into the world. Life has been constrained and inward-looking over the last two years of the pandemic, and we’re hoping that in 2022we will be, once again, able to broaden our horizons and experience the freedom of the open road. Setting forth from your ho...

As Christmas approaches, we are all attuned to the familiar litany of Christmas customs: decorating the Christmas tree, sending out Christmas cards, hanging up our stockings for Santa, eating traditional food such as mince pies, Christmas pudding and turkey, enjoying a pantomime, and so on. But C...

Christmas Gifts As the Christmas season approaches, our thoughts inevitably turn to the issue of Christmas presents. Some of us will leave Christmas shopping until a fraught last minute dash, while others will execute this task with a military-like precision week, if not months before. The Christ...

The history of hirsute evolution of men's hairstyles is as varied, surprising and unexpected as one can possibly imagine and the variations played on the simple trio of essential styling of short, medium or long cuts, have been endless. Unsurprisingly, men ’s hairstyles are a fascinating reflecti...

The importance of being flawlessly groomed needs no emphasis and the benefits of presenting a better version of oneself are far reaching. A well-groomed and meticulously-barbered façade however, will be let down by neglected skin. Dry and dull skin or one marked by spots, blotches or covered with...

Although countless generations of human beings have had to endure each other’s body odour without recourse to the ameliorating effects of deodorant, we have tried to mask it for centuries and our attempts to do so have ranged from imaginative to bizarre. Doubtless, when the planet was sparsely po...