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C.Q. Turnstone | Historian | Historical Fiction Author

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1 year ago

The Princess Alice Disaster on the Thames (1878) Part Two Three Good Questions (and some answers) about the sinking of the SS Princess Alice on the Thames in 1878 Last month I invited you to imagine that while doing some historical research you’d found a

Answering #ThreeGoodQuestions (actually 10) about the sinking of the SS Princess Alice on the #Thames in September 1878 and the legacies of the disaster. #history #c19

C.Q. Turnstone | Historian | Historical Fiction Author

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1 year ago

Disaster on the Thames (1878) Three Good Questions This is the sixth in an ongoing series of posts about historical research, featuring news articles, adverts, and other sources mostly from Britain in the 19th century. Just for fu...

The 7th September 1878 edition of the Illustrated London News reported the collision on the Thames four days earlier of the SS Princess Alice and the SS Bywell Castle.

What #ThreeGoodQuestions would you want answers to first?

#19thcentury #history

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C.Q. Turnstone | Historian | Historical Fiction Author

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1 year ago

Anarchist Conspirators In London (1894) Part Two Three Good Questions (and some answers) about Martial Bourdin and the Greenwich Park Explosion Last month I invited you to imagine that while doing some historical research you’d found a piece in the ...

Answering your #ThreeGoodQuestions about #MartialBourdin and the #GreenwichPark explosion in February 1894. #history #19thcentury #anarchism

C.Q. Turnstone | Historian | Historical Fiction Author

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1 year ago

Anarchist Conspirators In London (1894) Three Good Questions This is the fifth in an ongoing series of posts about historical research, featuring news articles, adverts, and other sources mostly from Britain in the 19th century. Just for fu...

The next #ThreeGoodQuestions #historicalresearch prompt is another from the Illustrated London News, this time concerning Martial Bourdin's failed attempt to blow up the Greenwich Observatory in February 1894. What rabbit holes would it lead you down?

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1 year ago

Scenery of Cashmere and the Upper Indus (1865) Part Two Three Good Questions (and some answers) Last month I invited you to imagine that while doing some historical research you’d found a piece in the Illustrated London News from 4th February 1865 about fo...

Captain G.H. Ware's sketches of the Upper Indus (Illustrated London News, Feb 1865) provided a great example of how interrogating even a very brief article with #ThreeGoodQuestions can quickly lead #historicalresearch in all sorts of interesting directions.

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1 year ago

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The latest ThreesWrite Newsletter has left the building, featuring answers to #ThreeGoodQuestions about Captain G.H. Ware's 1865 sketches of the Upper Indus, an update on my #betareading process, and some anarchists in London in 1894. Subscribe here (it's free): threeswrite.com/newsletter/

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1 year ago

Soirée in Aid of the Deaf and Dumb (1865) Part Two Three Good Questions (and some answers) Last month I invited you to imagine that while doing some historical research you’d found an article about a fundraising event for the Deaf community published ...

From the #17thcentury origins of #BritishSignLanguage to a lord of the realm conversing on a slate, researching answers to the #ThreeGoodQuestions about the 1865 fundraising soirée in aid of London's #Deafcommunity has been fascinating. #history #historicalresearch

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1 year ago

I’ll be writing the follow-up piece to this during the next few days. Ask me #ThreeGoodQuestions about the article from 1865 and I’ll try to answer them. #history #Deafcommunity #19thcentury

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1 year ago

Soirée in Aid of the Deaf and Dumb (1865) Three Good Questions This is the next in an ongoing series of posts about historical research, featuring news articles, adverts, and other sources mostly from Britain in the 19th century. Just for fun...

Received some wonderfully thoughtful #ThreeGoodQuestions over the weekend regarding this 1865 article about fundraising for the #Deafcommunity, with topics ranging from education provision to the influence of Lord Carbery. What would you want answers to? #19thcentury #history

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1 year ago

Electricity Is Life (1854) Part Two Three Good Questions (and some answers) Last month I invited you to imagine that while doing some historical research you’d noticed an advert for Meinig’s Patent Portable Galvanic Electro-Generator in...

There’s quackery, nymph speculation, Charles Dickens’ gout, Madame Bovary, Joseph Conrad’s secret agent, and a doctor called Bird in the answers to your #ThreeGoodQuestions about the 1854 advert for Meinig’s patent portable galvanic electro-generator.
#history #galvanism #19thcentury

C.Q. Turnstone | Historian | Historical Fiction Author

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2 years ago

The East Kent Fire Brigades (1879) This is the first in a series about historical research, featuring news articles and adverts mostly from Britain in the 19th century.

Imagine you stumbled across this article about the East Kent Fire Brigades in 1879 during your #historicalresearch. What could you learn from it? How many rabbit holes would it lead you down? In what new directions might it take your work?

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