Tom Hughes
@thughesga.bsky.social
Follower of Victorian scandals.
Author: A SHATTERED IDOL - THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE AND HIS TROUBLESOME WOMEN. (Marble Hill, London - pub'd 8 May 2025). "Society never had such a peep into the manners of our titled men."
Author: A SHATTERED IDOL - THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE AND HIS TROUBLESOME WOMEN. (Marble Hill, London - pub'd 8 May 2025). "Society never had such a peep into the manners of our titled men."
@booksky.club Gift idea for anyone seeking books for Anglophiles. This "curated" collection might serve.
December 14, 2025 at 5:47 PM
@booksky.club Gift idea for anyone seeking books for Anglophiles. This "curated" collection might serve.
Victorians knew the more a marriage was opposed the more likely it was to occur. Meet the Coleridge family. The exalted "Chief" warred with his spinster daughter (37!) enchanted by a fortune hunter. Then, his lordship was won by a woman half his age (her 1st marriage dodgily annulled in Scotland.)
December 9, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Victorians knew the more a marriage was opposed the more likely it was to occur. Meet the Coleridge family. The exalted "Chief" warred with his spinster daughter (37!) enchanted by a fortune hunter. Then, his lordship was won by a woman half his age (her 1st marriage dodgily annulled in Scotland.)
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Tough day recording youtubes for my new books. My wife as videographer. Take Six.
December 7, 2025 at 2:20 PM
@newbooksnetwork.bsky.social Tough day recording youtubes for my new books. My wife as videographer. Take Six.
@bho.bsky.social Tardy thanks. Used BHO to vet locations, street #s, residences, etc. In new book, sorted 42 Victoria Rd, S Kens, in 1883, where the Lord Chief Justice snuck off to marry his 2d wife - since torn down & infill renumbered. Disappointing to me but essential to know. Book in profile.
July 2, 2025 at 1:16 PM
@bho.bsky.social Tardy thanks. Used BHO to vet locations, street #s, residences, etc. In new book, sorted 42 Victoria Rd, S Kens, in 1883, where the Lord Chief Justice snuck off to marry his 2d wife - since torn down & infill renumbered. Disappointing to me but essential to know. Book in profile.
@devonhist.bsky.social Can I mention my new book about the Coleridges of Ottery? A Shattered Idol: The Lord Chief Justice & His Troublesome Women deals with separate but simultaneous family crises in the 1880s. "Society never had such a peep into the manners of our titled men." Pub'd London 8/5/25.
June 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
@devonhist.bsky.social Can I mention my new book about the Coleridges of Ottery? A Shattered Idol: The Lord Chief Justice & His Troublesome Women deals with separate but simultaneous family crises in the 1880s. "Society never had such a peep into the manners of our titled men." Pub'd London 8/5/25.
@ballioloxford.bsky.social John Duke Coleridge (1820-1894) was a Balliol man who later served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. He's at the center of my new book: A Shattered Idol - The Lord Chief Justice & His Troublesome Women (Marble Hill, London) Lifelong friend of Jowett et al.
June 24, 2025 at 12:44 PM
@ballioloxford.bsky.social John Duke Coleridge (1820-1894) was a Balliol man who later served as Lord Chief Justice of England and Wales. He's at the center of my new book: A Shattered Idol - The Lord Chief Justice & His Troublesome Women (Marble Hill, London) Lifelong friend of Jowett et al.
@joshharrelson.bsky.social A fascinating tale of the sea and the law. L.C.J. Coleridge - while presiding over R v Dudley &Stephens - faced an embarrassing domestic & legal dispute w/his "spinster" daughter. A Shattered Idol - The Lord Chief Justice & His Troublesome Women. (Marble Hill, London 2025)
June 22, 2025 at 12:57 PM
@joshharrelson.bsky.social A fascinating tale of the sea and the law. L.C.J. Coleridge - while presiding over R v Dudley &Stephens - faced an embarrassing domestic & legal dispute w/his "spinster" daughter. A Shattered Idol - The Lord Chief Justice & His Troublesome Women. (Marble Hill, London 2025)
@britishlibrary.bsky.social Using the BL's Coleridge papers for A Shattered Idol - The Lord Chief Justice & His Troublesome Women. The LCJ's family spun apart amidst separate but simultaneous domestic crises. "Society never had such a peep into the manners of our titled men." Marble Hill Books 2025.
June 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
@britishlibrary.bsky.social Using the BL's Coleridge papers for A Shattered Idol - The Lord Chief Justice & His Troublesome Women. The LCJ's family spun apart amidst separate but simultaneous domestic crises. "Society never had such a peep into the manners of our titled men." Marble Hill Books 2025.