Victorian History
An idiosyncratic selection of short bits about elements of Victorian history.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
The Greatest Show on Earth - And all for a Shilling
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The Great Exhibition Hall, The Crystal Palace On a cloudy and mildly threatening first day of May in 1851, Queen Victoria arrived at the Gr...
Friday, July 18, 2008
America Comes to London: Buffalo Bill Cody and his Wild West Show
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On 14 April 1887, the steamship, State of Nebraska entered the Thames and anchored at Gravesend fourteen days after leaving the United St...
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Wednesday, June 25, 2008
The Case of the "Growler" and the Handsome Hansom
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A Hansom Cab For many of us, especially those living in the "colonies", our introduction to the Hansom cab came as we first read t...
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Sunday, June 22, 2008
The Bridge Over the River Tay
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Bridge Before the Disaster Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay! Alas! I am very sorry to say That ninety lives have been taken away ...
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Sunday, June 15, 2008
Victorian Vegetarians
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While modern vegetarians with an interest in the past may well know that a diet excluding meat has a long and honourable history, most of us...
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