October 30, 2017
How Did Halloween Come to be Such A Big Holiday? C.A. Asbrey Halloween was Celtic New Year and has been celebrated in the Celtic fringes of the British Isles since time immemorial. One of my personal bugbears is when English Read more…
October 23, 2017
Sentenced To Be Dissected John Horwood Not strictly Victorian, but certainly 19th century, we have the strange tale of the Bristol lad sentenced to be used by medical science for dissection at the Read more…
October 8, 2017
A Woman Scorned When Laura Fair went on trial in 1871for murdering her double-crossing married lover, a morality play was acted out in a San Francisco courtroom that made headlines across the United States and became a national Read more…
October 2, 2017
The Victorian craze that sparked a mini-sexual revolution By Justin Parkinson A Victorian Valentine’s card refers to Cupid wearing ‘the nimble wheel’ going ‘a-RINKING’ Rollerskating is a long-established hobby, allowing for exercise and Read more…
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