Have you been to a Sting concert recently? I could totally understand torturing a lutist.
Today, I found an academic paper on Victorian theatre actresses.
Trying to map out the obscurer, though still not too remote, branches of the Duke of Buckingham's family. Very miffed that Lockyer's biography gives Anne Brett as his cousin (the daughter of his mother's sister), while Wikipedia claims she was a cousin of his mother's and other sources have no background on her at all, except her being a relative of his.
Bowery b'hoy slang and free black longshoremen at the New York City South Street port in the nineteenth century.