Hello hello! It’s been quite a while since I’ve put together an update, so I thought I’d do a wee … More
Tag: Nostalgia
“An area of outstanding natural devastation”: 30 years after Sussex is hit by the Great Storm
[This story was published on October 12 in the Observer series. Read the original story at http://www.chichester.co.uk/news/an-area-of-outstanding-natural-devastation-1-8192279.] Three decades ago, West … More
From Alice in Wonderland to Cadbury’s Cocoa: the Brothers Dalziel’s Victorian wood engraving
During the nineteenth century, technological changes led to an expansion in print culture. Improvements in printing and paper production, in … More
‘Lizzie Borden took an axe’: See What I Have Done by Sarah Schmidt [spoilers]
[This story was published on April 7 on the BAVS Neo-Victorian blog. Read the original story at victorianist.wordpress.com/2017/04/07/neo-victorian-review-lizzie-borden-took-an-axe-see-what-i-have-done-by-sarah-schmidt-spoilers.] Lizzie Borden took … More
Satire and people spotting in Victorian Hastings
If you wanted to know the local lowdown in Hastings during the mid 1800s, then the Gossiping Photographer was your man. Francis Frith … More
