The bonnet was brought to Guernsey from Dorset by 1850, as part of the general 19th C upgrading of the agricultural industry in the Channel Islands. Simple to make, it consists of a wide caned ...

The clothes they wear—suit vests, black pants and white long-sleeved shirts for the men, long dresses and bonnet-like head ...

When Charles Darwin developed his theory of evolution in the mid-19th century, he figured this fundamental ... in its ...