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‘With Her Own Hair’: A Victorian Prisoner’s Art
A Deptford woman named Annie Parker sat in a dank, cold cell in Kent’s Maidstone Gaol in 1879. Jailed for…
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Pet Monkeys in Victorian Britain
In December 1900 distressed animal lover ‘V.E.N’ informed fellow readers of The Bazaar magazine about a disturbing incident involving his…
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Victorian Romantic Rituals and Charms
The setting is Christmas Eve, after a rollicking holiday party in North Yorkshire. While the rest of the family retires,…
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Stolen remains of Aboriginal people and Tasmanian tigers traced to grave-robbing Victorian naturalist
British-ruled Tasmania’s “foremost” naturalist was an untrained lawyer who traded stolen Aboriginal remains alongside Tasmanian tiger skins for scientific prestige,…
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The Fram: A Victorian expedition to the North Pole that was as brilliant as it was bonkers
The Fram is one of the most bonkers and brilliant experiments ever devised because it had that perfect combination of…
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