A few weeks ago, my home was under attack by an unidentified smell. It offended me in such a primal way that at first I assumed it was a dead animal, but soon discovered that our plumbing had revolted against us. As I gagged and grimaced my way through the days until the repairs were read more
I want to lead the Victorian life, surrounded by exquisite clutter. ~Freddie Mercury, lead singer of Queen
Today in 1843 saw the launch of the newspaper The News of the World by John Browne Bell. Read more about it here.
Today is the 126th anniversary of the Blackpool electric street tram line between Cocker Street and Dean St. This is significant because not only was this the one of the first trams of its kind (using a charged grooved track called the conduit system) in the world, but it is also the last first-generation tram read more
On September 28th, 1865 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, after trying repeatedly to get a medical degree but getting turned down because of her sex, took the Society of Aphothecaries exam and became the first woman doctor in England. You can read more on her story here at Wired Magazine Online.
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact. -George Eliot, Theophrastus Such
Mary Du Caurroy Tribe was born on September 26, 1865 in Stockbridge, Hampshire. She left Cheltenham Ladies College at sixteen to move to Lahore, India where her father was the Archdeacon.1 In January of 1888, Mary married Herbrand Arthur Russell, the fifteenth Earl and eleventh Duke of Bedford and they had their first and only read more
Continuation of The Spectacle of Execution Public executions were an incredibly popular entertainment event in Victorian London. Men and women, old and young, rich and poor all came out en mass to watch people die, and they were decidedly not polite nor even reverent about the occasion. On July 6, 1840, the public execution of read more
The fame of Charlotte, Anne, and Emily Bronte as sister writers could easily eclipse that they, in fact, had a brother. Patrick Branwell (often misspelled as Bramwell) Bronte was born in Thornton on July 23, 1817, sandwiched in between Charlotte and Emily.1 Branwell is the source of much controversy, when he is discussed at read more
Powerful and expansive nations are often compared to that massive entity of ancient Rome, and usually with warnings of some nature or other attached. We like to think of ourselves as civilized, casting a condemning glance at the barbaric or “primitive” behavior of our ancestors. Indeed, 19th century Londoners thought very highly of themselves as read more
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