Latest posts tagged with #VictorianHistory on Bluesky
🚨 SPECIAL EPISODE🚨
30,000 spectators. One condemned doctor. 😳⛓️ Stephen Bates revisits the dramatic execution that gripped Victorian Britain and proves true crime obsession is nothing new. 🎙️🔥
Listen now: pod.fo/e/3a68ec
#TrueCrime #VictorianHistory #Podcast
Hand made book bags and book marks to be given away with every purchased book Thursday night at the Sherlock Holmes Society of London's spring meeting (see my talk post for more details)!! @penandswordbooks.bsky.social
#Victorianhistory #History #nineteenthcenturyhistory #19thC #booksky #Victorian
Author Talk - The Food of Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson by Shona Parker
The Sherlock Holmes Society of London's Spring 2026 meeting will be held on Thursday 12th March 2026 at The National Liberal Club, 1 Whitehall Place, London.
The guest speaker is me!
#19thC #Victorianhistory #Victorianfood
🎙️Lottie Moggach joins us to talk about her new novel Mrs Pearcey, inspired by a shocking Victorian true crime case
🎧 Listen now 👇
player.captivate.fm/episode/c414...
#MrsPearcey #LottieMoggach #TrueCrime #VictorianHistory #BookPodcast #HistoricalFiction #CrimeFiction #Booksky
ULTRA RARE SIGNED 1894 edition of Ravenstein’s Philip’s Systematic Atlas available!
Includes 250+ maps into coordinated plates with a detailed index. Reflects the scientific turn in Victorian cartography and his scientific data driven technique.
Listing in comments.
#Cartography #VictorianHistory
A unique artifact from the past; A bobbin hat! A new #blogpost today! #Britishhistory #Victorianhistory #fishmarketLondon www.jeriwesterson.com/bobbin-hats-...
A queen carries flowers… and suddenly an accessory becomes a status symbol across an empire. 👑🌸
Fashion is never just fashion. It’s power, imitation, and social signaling.
#VictorianHistory #FashionHistory #Brewminate
📣 Great Grimsby Family History Group – March Meeting 📅 Tuesday 10th March 2026 ⏰ 7:30pm 📍 Grimsby Town Hall 🎤 Carla Linford presents: Victorian Sex Workers Join us in person or via Microsoft Teams. 📧 grimsbybranch@lincolnshirefhs.org.uk Non-members welcome (£3 donation). #FamilyHistory #Grimsby #VictorianHistory
Great Grimsby Family History Group
Tuesday 10th March 2026
7:30pm
Grimsby Town Hall
Carla Linford presents: Victorian Sex Workers
Join us in person or via Microsoft Teams.
grimsbybranch@lincolnshirefhs.org.uk
Non-members welcome (£3 donation).
#FamilyHistory #Grimsby #VictorianHistory
The history behind the supposed ghostly matter youtu.be/2xHize-mHZ4?... #Ectoplasm #VictorianHistory
CW: Victorian medical misogyny
Diagnosis for disobedient women: hysteria.
'Treatment': forced institutionalisation, sedation, loss of rights.
When Mary pursued divorce, she risked 'mad' label.
Victorian medicine pathologised resistance.
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#VictorianHistory
Victorian law: women were incubators.
Before 1839: Fathers had ABSOLUTE custody rights. Mothers had NONE.
Children belonged to him.
Small reforms 1839 & 1873:
→ Mothers could petition
→ BUT only if they proved 'moral fitness'
→ Fathers still presumed fit
tinyurl.com/3faz9fah
#VictorianHistory
CW: Victorian sexual health
Mary's 1875 petition: Husband Charles infected with VD.
CDA let police arrest women SUSPECTED of prostitution, force exams. Men? Never.
Mary risked 'contaminated' label. Spoke anyway.
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#VictorianHistory
Researching one of my favorite topics- horse shows! #history #historicalhorseshows #victorianhorseshows #horseshowweek #showjumping #rodeo #charreada #victorianhistory #frontierhistory #southwesthistory #writingresearch #writingabook averybridge.substack.com/p/historical...
Handwritten index of Royalty and Nobility featured in the scrapbook, which takes up a small portion of the page. It is crowded with printed decorative borders, Hine’s own annotations about the scrapbook’s contents, and some decorative sketches including a plant in a pot labelled ‘VR’. The page is crowded except for a small space that has some lists of royalty in pencil that was probably intended to be inked in at a later date.
Photo of the disbound page of the scrapbook, featuring a large watercolour sketch of a tunnel, a letter and a printed image of an unidentified building, being brushed by the preservation assistant whose hands are visible.
This month's Archives Hub feature by University of #Nottingham @uonlibraries.bsky.social Manuscripts & Special Collections: about Victorian architect & autograph hunter Thomas Chambers Hine
blog.archiveshub.jisc.ac.uk/2026/01/13/a...
#VictorianHistory #Archives #Manuscripts #Conservation
Promotional image for Gale Review blog, "Queen Victoria: The Unexpected Feminist Icon Explored Through State Papers Online: Nineteenth Century: The State Papers of Queen Victoria and King Edward VII" featuring images of correspondence from the archive.
Was Queen Victoria an accidental feminist?
New State Papers Online reveal how her leadership and correspondence complicate our understanding of gender, power, and monarchy in the 19th century. #VictorianHistory #WomenInHistory Read the blog here: https://bit.ly/49MBvk7
Mary's recipe book: 133 attributed recipes from 97 women over 50 years.
Sister Elizabeth. Miss Evinson. Mrs Bunting.
Victorian recipe books=collaborative documents. Female knowledge networks.
Each attribution proved: you're still one of us.
tinyurl.com/3faz9fah
#VictorianHistory #WomensHistory
The Victorians already panicked over “soulless” machine-made beauty ⚙️
Craft vs efficiency. Art vs industry. Humanity vs automation.
We’ve been here before — and they left receipts.
#Brewminate #VictorianHistory #ArtAndIndustry
Just finished another draft of Mary's book.
The Victorian Recipe Book That Sustained a Life
Her recipe book shows survival strategies: Victorian friend networks, creative resources.
Victorian women resisted quietly.
tinyurl.com/3faz9fah
#VictorianHistory #GenHour #WomensHistory #Sheffield
New on NOTCHES: The Massage Establishments Scandal: Coding and De-coding Sex Work at the Turn of the Twentieth Century by Jessica Gregory.
Link: wp.me/p6JJ6S-4SG
#SexWorkStudies #VictorianHistory #Herstory #Censorship #NotchesBlog
📢 #CfP @divorcehistory.bsky.social conference: Marital breakdown in the English common law world 1801-1969
📅 20 April 2026
🎓Northumbria University
🎤 Keynote: Baroness Hale of Richmond DBE
💰 Speaker bursaries available!
#legalhistory #socialhistory #genderhistory #VictorianHistory #law #humanities.
Chapter 7 complete
What did fighting back look like for a Victorian woman?
Mary Allott had financial security—but not freedom. In 1873, she took a huge personal risk to challenge her marriage.
Follow her story & join the waitlist:
tinyurl.com/3faz9fah
#GenHour #WomensHistory #VictorianHistory
Black-and-white engraved fashion plate showing three figures against a draped curtain and outdoor backdrop. On the right stands an adult woman in an elaborate floor-length gown with a very wide crinoline skirt decorated with large floral motifs and bows, short puffed sleeves, and flowers in her hair; she is in profile with hands clasped at her chest. In the center is another woman in a darker, plainer day dress with long sleeves, fitted bodice, and full skirt, holding a small object at her side. To the left is a young girl in a knee-length, tiered ruffled dress with short sleeves and a sash, holding a hat or small basket in one hand and stepping forward. All three faces are blurred. At the bottom of the image is printed text reading “THE FASHIONS” and indicating that the illustration was expressly designed and prepared for the “Englishwoman’s Domestic Magazine
1861 census: Mary 'married'—but alone.
Husband in NZ with mistress. Son with paternal grandmother. Christiana later testified AGAINST Mary in court.
Victorian 'support' = men in control.
helenparkerdrabble.com/coming-soon-...
#VictorianHistory #Genealogy
🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
One of the five wasn’t just a victim — she hustled, schemed, and survived in a world stacked against her. 🎭 @hallierubenhold.bsky.social shares the surprising life of Elizabeth Stride on #HistoryRage.
🎧 Listen now 👉 pod.fo/e/376763
#VictorianHistory #TrueCrime #WomensVoices
"Higher... higher... and pull."
With Naomi Ibasitas as Beatrice and Cari Keebaugh as Mrs. Hawking in part VIII: HOME RULE. Photo by Kathy Bedard.
#mrshawking #slimetutorial #victorian #victorianhistory #steampunk
Kathleen Duncan presents her baby loaf, Benjamin, to the Pride Lands. With @visoraunt.bsky.social in HOME RULE. Photo by @rocketprops.bsky.social.
#mrshawking #slimetutorial #victorian #victorianhistory #steampunk
It's #MapMonday! Here's a #map of #workhouses, #asylums, hospitals and dispensaries in #London, 1900.
Take a closer look on @layersoflondon.bsky.social at www.layersoflondon.org/map/...
#VictorianHistory #BritishHistory #GIS #HGIS #MappyMonday
📚 Educated to be a perfect wife
💍 Married & legally erased
💔 Husband contracted VD, abandoned her
⚖️ Lost son to custody laws
📖 Found power in recipe books
👭 Saved by women's networks
Mary's story coming soon helenparkerdrabble.com/coming-soon-...
#VictorianHistory #WomensHistory #Genealogy
Mary Allott 1861 census: "married daughter" at parents' Spring Villa
Unremarkable until you add:
• Husband emigrated to NZ (passenger lists)
• Son with grandmother
• Newspapers
• Court records
helenparkerdrabble.com/coming-soon-maryabio/
#VictorianHistory #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory
When Victorian law gave women nothing, they gave each other visibility and a social network through recipes:
• Elderflower wine
• Raspberry vinegar
• Butterscotch
and many more
helenparkerdrabble.com/coming-soon-maryabio/
#VictorianHistory #WomensHistory #Recipes #Feminism
Eyre Street, Sheffield, 1858: A brothel & a discreet VD treatment clinic. Charles Allott caught VD from the former.
The geography of Victorian shame in 1 street.
But about his wife Mary?
helenparkerdrabble.com/coming-soon-maryabio/
#VictorianHistory #SheffieldHistory #WomensHistory #GenHour
