• Rediscovering the black muses erased from art history.
• A Victorian guide to Cambridge student life.
• Mark Twain liked cats better than people.
• Star-spangled Pierrot and Pierrette costumes from the 1920s.
• How the Romantic poets idolized 18thc Polish freedom-fighter (and veteran of the American Revolution) Tadeusz Kosciuszko.
• Image: Lord Byron's carnival mask.
• The treatment of children in the Garlands Lunatic Asylum, 1862-1914.
• A medieval book that opens six different ways, revealing six different books in one.
• The 19thc British cavalry horse.
• Coach clocks, for telling time on long journeys.
• Infusing life: the first human-to-human blood transfusion, 1818
• Image: Macabre c1815 silver skull opens up to reveal 17thc watch.
• What happens when humans fall in love with an invasive species.
• Land of the Livingstons: historic houses along the Hudson River.
• Maureen Rose, buttonmaker, in a Fitzrovia shop that's in the house where Charles Dickens grew up.
• The royal babies of King George III and Queen Charlotte.
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Above: At Breakfast by Laurits Andersen Ring. Private collection.
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2 comments:
My life partner cum blog partner is fascinated with medical history. He warmly recommended the blog post on human to human blood transfusions.
Thanks for the link to the student's guide to St. John's College, Cambridge. My great grandfather attended there less than 10 years earlier than the date of the guide, before he eventually emigrated to Canada.
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