Victorian History
An idiosyncratic selection of short bits about elements of Victorian history.
Friday, October 17, 2008
Madame Rachel: Beautiful for Ever
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In the 1860s, it was not uncommon to find advertisements on the front page of The Times for a book on beauty by one Madame Rachel. The boo...
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Saturday, October 04, 2008
Threading Cleopatra's Needle
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Cleopatra's Needle on the Victoria Embankment On the Victoria Embankment in London, passed by millions of pedestrians every year, is an ...
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Monday, August 11, 2008
Wet Nursing in Victorian England
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Morisot, The Wet Nurse (1880) In recent years there appears to have been a resurgence in "cross-feeding," the practice of breast f...
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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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