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A volunteer group has been awarded £10,000 to develop a viability study examining the future of chapels at Ince Cemetery, ...
An exploration of sex work in the Victorian era. What were the lives of women like who sold sex in the Victorian era? How did ...
Scotland Yard’s Victorian history is a captivating tale of law enforcement evolution and forensic science breakthroughs. Simon Read, author of Scotland Yard: ...
The Victorian City: Images and Realities edited by HJ Dyos and Michael Woolf (Routledge, 1973) Victorian Babylon: People, Streets and Images in Nineteenth-Century London by Lynda Nead (Yale ...
The Victorian Internet is a delightful book. John R. Alden, an anthropologist and archaeologist, has long been fascinated by 19th-century social history. You Might Also Like ...
This year, Victorian Days takes place Aug. 18 at the San Mateo County History Museum in Redwood City, featuring crafts and a scavenger hunt for kids plus a Victorian Tea with historic reenacters ...
Escort cards mimicked Victorian calling cards, which members of the upper classes left at each other’s houses to introduce themselves, further a relationship, give congratulations, or express ...
Victorian Womanhood, in All Its Guises Frances Benjamin Johnston’s self-portraits show a woman was never content playing just one role ...
The 1865 card A Dream After Seeing Pepper’s Ghost is a great example of how the Victorian penchant for allusions and wordplay ... it’s fun to contemplate the lighter side of this history, ...