Month: September 2017

Ghost Photography The Victorians were huge fans of the paranormal and loved to combine it with their newest technology – Photography. THE VERY FIRST GHOST PHOTOGRAPHS The first ‘ghost’ photographs were produced by accident and were a result of the long Read more…

Spinach Ice Cream And 5 Other Weird Victorian Recipes  Laurence Scales   The Victorian cookery writer Agnes Marshall (1855-1905) has faded from memory despite running a cookery school in Mortimer Street and, like Jamie Oliver, putting her name on every Read more…

Unwritten Laws of the Past and the Freedom to Kill Dan Sickles, congressman from New York, was married to the most beautiful woman in Washington but his other interests, including his mistresses, often kept him away from home. His lonely Read more…

NICOTINE AND THE CHEMISTRY OF MURDER DEBORAH BLUM The 1850 murder of Gustave Fougnies in Belgium is not famous because of the cleverness of his killers. Not at all. They – his sister and brother-in-law – practically set off signal Read more…