Victorian History
An idiosyncratic selection of short bits about elements of Victorian history.
Friday, August 04, 2017
Victorian Dial-a-Birch
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Paul Townsend, a Bristol historian, recently posted the following article on Facebook. Paul has kindly given me permission to re-post it w...
Tuesday, December 06, 2016
The First Royal Visit to Australia
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HRH Prince Alfred, KG, Duke of Edinburgh In general, I have tried to limit these blogs to England and particularly London. But, of cou...
Friday, November 04, 2016
Knackered
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Thomas Rowlandson, A Dead Horse on a Knacker's Cart It must have been around 1967 when I made my first trip to Great Britain from th...
Thursday, May 19, 2016
“I saw the glitter of polished steel”
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The tools of the trade It is almost impossible for us to imagine the pain that was a part of surgery before the development of anæsthet...
Thursday, May 12, 2016
Clerical Errors, a review
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As readers of this blog will have gathered, I enjoy a bit of historical gossip and what could possibly be more fun than stories about cleri...
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