December 25, 2017
Christmas in 19th Century America Steve Ember and Shirley Griffith “Winter Morning in the Country” (Currier and Ives Print) During this period, Christmas was Read more…
December 18, 2017
The Christmas Murders – The Knickerbocker Murders Mark Gribben The first rule of the Knickerbocker Club, the current iteration of the club at the center of several Gilded Age murders which interest us here, is that no Read more…
December 10, 2017
The Christmas Murders The Gruesome Murder of Hannah Brown John Rennie The Paddington Murder Sheet, published in 1837, shared the lurid details of Greenacre’s murder of Hannah Brown. Image property of Westminster City Archives. Any piece of detective work Read more…
December 4, 2017
The Christmas Murders This week; The Legend Of Stagger Lee Christmas has always been a time of merriment, socializing, and conspicuous consumption. People get thrown together who normally don’t spend much time together, passions rise and so do tempers. Read more…
November 27, 2017
Thanksgiving Ragamuffins: The tradition. Frederick Wertz You might be puzzled this Thursday if you heard a knock on your door, and were posed this question by a gaggle of children dressed in creepy masks and ragged clothes. But in Read more…
November 20, 2017
The Real Electric Frankenstein Experiments of the 1800s Why scientists during the late 18th and 19th centuries conducted crude experiments with reanimating corpses. BY LAUREN YOUNG In this 1867 illustration, a crowd of scientists watch in horror as Andrew Ure Read more…
November 12, 2017
The First Lady Of San Quentin – Mary Von Mary Von Shayne Davidson She was prone to episodes of violence. Very little is known of her early life, including her birth name. Born in Ireland in the 1840s when the Read more…
November 6, 2017
Daniel Dunglas Home Magician or Psychic? by Stephen Wagner Did D. D. Home truly possess extraordinary paranormal abilities? Daniel Dunglas Home was the most celebrated medium Read more…
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…
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