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Featured image: Highgate Cemetery founded in 1839. Photo via http://notesfromcamelidcountry.net/2013/07/21/highgate-cemetery-a-victorian-valhalla/. Spring will soon be upon us – the…
How we mourn the famous reveals something much larger about our culture as a whole:…
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I am about a quarter of the way through Alexander Chee’s new epic, The Queen…
Featured Image: Kingdom of Heaven (1891) by Frank Bramley. For the Victorians, there were a…
Photo: Mabel Ryan and Blanche Ryan in mourning clothes, taking tea in the garden, wearing mourning…
Featured image source: shop.cluttermagazine.com, via bloodmilk.tumblr.com. Valentine’s Day has become a bit saccharine, if you ask…
Featured Image: “Victorian Mother and Child.” Artist unknown. Source:http://www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings/paintings/victorian-mother-and-child-168395 As early as eight years old,…
Featured photo: the Assyrian Genocide Memorial in Chicago, IL. Source: http://www.atour.com/history/landmarks/20130731a.html. Who are the Assyrians?…
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