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A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England: DAY 9: 12 DAYS OF VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS CARDS
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A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England. Michelle Higgs's guide to the weird and wonderful world of Victorian England. Saturday, 20 December 2014. DAY 9: 12 DAYS OF VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS CARDS. On Day 9 of '12 Days of Victorian Christmas Cards', I give you mice pulling a cracker! Or is it a sweet? I can't tell but it's another typically Victorian subject for a Christmas card featuring cute animals. Unless, of course, they are friendly pet rats. 21 December 2014 at 02:03. 21 December 2014 at 09:30. Ōtūmoetai...
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The Port of London in the 18th Century – All Things Georgian
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Blogging about anything and everything to do with the Georgian Era. The Port of London in the 18th Century. April 16, 2015. May 2, 2016. We are absolutely thrilled to welcome a new guest to our blog – Regan Walker, bestselling author of historical romance. Regan has another new book due out on the 9th May 2015 – To Tame the Wind. Regan is sharing with us some of her research that has helped her in writing her latest book, which is available from Amazon. To Tame the Wind. Thousands of coastal sailing ship...
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August 4, 2015 – All Things Georgian
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Blogging about anything and everything to do with the Georgian Era. Day: August 4, 2015. One and twenty daft days’ in 1822: King George IV visits Scotland. August 4, 2015. February 17, 2016. In August 1822, a year after his coronation, King George IV made a trip to Scotland, the first British monarch to do so for 170 years. The entire trip was stage managed by the author Sir Walter Scott, with much pageantry, but some mistakes did happen. Via Brown digital repository, Brown University Library. The Landin...
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The miser, his daughter and her lover: Elizabeth Cardinall, 1776-1803 – All Things Georgian
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Blogging about anything and everything to do with the Georgian Era. Crimes of Georgian England. The miser, his daughter and her lover: Elizabeth Cardinall, 1776-1803. July 7, 2015. February 17, 2016. Clarkson Cardinall of Tendring in Essex was a miser. He lived in a large manor house, set in a good estate and had 60,000 in the bank, but he had let it fall into disrepair (to be honest, he reminds us of Sir Pitt Crawley, owner of Queen’s Crawley, in William Makepeace Thackeray’s. And then, on the 9. May, j...
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Georgian Hair and Clothing – Fashionable but Fatal – All Things Georgian
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Blogging about anything and everything to do with the Georgian Era. Fashion and Cosmetics in Georgian England. Georgian Hair and Clothing – Fashionable but Fatal. July 15, 2015. June 20, 2016. The extravaganza, or, The mountain head dress of 1776 Courtesy of Lewis Walpole Library. Georgian fashion dictated that women wore ‘big dresses’ accompanied by even bigger hair so with all that fabric and ‘. London Chronicle (London, England), September 28, 1776 – October 1, 1776. Last week a very melancholy accide...
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The Philanthropic Cat, 1823 – All Things Georgian
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Blogging about anything and everything to do with the Georgian Era. The Philanthropic Cat, 1823. July 30, 2015. February 17, 2016. We thought our readers might enjoy the two following letters sent in to the newspapers in 1823, on the subject of philanthropic cats. Gabrielle Arnault as a child, by Louis-Léopold Boilly, 1815. A POLITE SCOTCH CAT. The Morning Post, 12. Harris Museum and Art Gallery via http:/ www.bbc.co.uk/arts/yourpaintings. The Morning Post, 13. To order) and all good bookshops. July 30, ...
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A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England: TANTRUMS, TEARS & TOIL: DOMESTIC SERVICE IN A VICTORIAN COACHING INN
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A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England. Michelle Higgs's guide to the weird and wonderful world of Victorian England. Thursday, 7 May 2015. TANTRUMS, TEARS and TOIL: DOMESTIC SERVICE IN A VICTORIAN COACHING INN. The second episode of the BBC's 24 Hours in the Past. Was set in a coaching inn in the 1840s, with the National Trust's. New Inn at Stowe. North Country Mails at the Peacock Islington, 1838, courtesy of Print and Photographs Division, Library of Congress, LC-DIG-pga-03502. The work of the other s...
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A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England: January 2014
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A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England. Michelle Higgs's guide to the weird and wonderful world of Victorian England. Thursday, 9 January 2014. MAKING ENDS MEET - THE ROLE OF VICTORIAN PAWNBROKERS. The Weekly Pledge Room' from Living London. Sale of Unredeemed Stock' from Living London. Saturday Night at a Pawnbroker's' from Living London. 1901) described one such day: “It is a strangely animated scene, with nearly all the characters played by women. It is a rarity to see a man among them…...Despite...
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A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England: November 2013
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A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England. Michelle Higgs's guide to the weird and wonderful world of Victorian England. Monday, 25 November 2013. KEEPING CLEAN: VICTORIAN PUBLIC and PRIVATE BATHS. Men's Private Baths - Hornsey Road Baths and Wash-Houses (from Living London. An article in Living London. Teaching Schoolboys to Swim - Kensington Baths (from Living London. Turkish Bath, Jermyn Street - Shampooing Room (from Living London. Turkish Bath, Jermyn Street - Cooling Room (from Living London. While th...
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A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England: DAY 10: 12 DAYS OF VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS CARDS
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A Visitor's Guide to Victorian England. Michelle Higgs's guide to the weird and wonderful world of Victorian England. Sunday, 21 December 2014. DAY 10: 12 DAYS OF VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS CARDS. It's Day 10 of '12 Days of Victorian Christmas Cards' and I have a real treat for you today. Continuing with the animals and birds theme, here is a wonderful card from the 1880s:. It features two beautiful owls flying in the moonlight while wearing top hats. One of them has an intriguing key around its neck. SERVANTS ...
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