A Pennington Pepys - John Graeme Livingstone

The diaries of William Fleming give us a glimpse into a world long gone. A world without trains, planes and automobiles. No cinema or television. No photography, only the timeless expressions of painting and sketching. Certainly a world without computers and smartphones! Medical science was still in its infancy. No vote for the common man or woman. Sadly, as now, Fleming often speaks of a world of tears, a world at war... but sometimes there is time for laughter, and always there is a time for hope.

It will give the reader an insight into the every day economic and social life in Great Britain during the late Georgian and Regency period, and a whole new aspect on life in those times in the Lakeland town of Ulverston, the Furness Peninsula and beyond. In the words of William Fleming:

When I began to write these Journals it was not merely as a Source of Amusement and Relaxation from Reading and other Employments but with a View of their affording me pleasure at some future period, by bringing to my Remembrance many little particulars which would undoubtedly have escaped my memory, and which, though little deserving of Notice, and on no other Account worthy of being recorded, may delight me, when I am reminded of them.