Last week I finished my online course “Investigating the Victorians” through Oxford’s Department of Continuing…
Tag: history
Home medicine was a necessary part of life in the Victorian Era because professional medical care…
Featured Image: The Thanatos Archive’s website banner. The Archive’s mission is to “collect, preserve, and…
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…
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 photo: the Assyrian Genocide Memorial in Chicago, IL. Source: http://www.atour.com/history/landmarks/20130731a.html. Who are the Assyrians?…
‘What did a poor woman work for, but in hopes that she should be put…
Image: “Vintage Funeral Little Girl Pallbearers Little Casket Old Time Funeral Children” via superiorview on…
Trish Lundy 