#maltonregencyball #maltonregencysoiree #regency #regencyera #regencyfashion #georgianera #charityball #countryball #soiree #nineteenthcentury #bridgerton #museum #history
Lew Wallace led a varied life. He was a politician, lawyer and writer. He was known for were his connections to Billy the Kid and his novel, Ben-Hur. Find out more about the fascinating man in this post from the #voyagerofhistory archives. #historyblog #nineteenthcentury #BenHur wp.me/pagtWm-gr
New out!
Damian Clavel examines how Miskitu King Robert Charles Frederic (1824–42) used colonial contracts with foreign merchants to advance his political agenda in Moskitia.
#Moskitia #CentralAmerica #colonialcontracts #financialcapitalism #nineteenthcentury
Read here: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
An Extraordinary Pair Of Giltwood Side Tables Carved With Pheasants And Eagles
Carlton Hobbs LLC, Inc. No. 11618
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#Italian #sidetable #italianfurniture #eighteenthcentury #nineteenthcentury #antiques #antiquefurniture #interiordesign #interiordecoration
📢 New on First View!
Paul Blickle explores the nineteenth-century history of ship’s ballast to study global maritime mobility ‘from below’.
#ballast #historyfrombelow #ports #ships #shipping #nineteenthcentury #environment #steampower #tranist #trade
Read Open Access: doi.org/10.1017/S174...
Before there was #Niagara, there was #PeleeIsland & #Essex Co, home of the first commercial winery in #Canada. In the #NineteenthCentury, Pelée Island was part of the “Wine Islands” of #LakeErie. Learn more in this week’s #HiddenHistory of #swont: www.cbc.ca/listen/live-... #cdnhist
Paragraph from Franklin Matthews’s comment on Thomas Collier Platt (Republican), published in Harper’s Weekly in Sept 1897. Platt is described as someone who is alienating people, who “raises money for party purposes by questionable means”, “who puts personal advantage above party supremacy”, and more.
Harper’s Weekly, 25 Sept. 1897 (a comment on Thomas C. Platt and his impact on the Republican Party in the state of New York). Some of the descriptions would also fit someone else…⬇️
#AmResearchingAndWriting #ThePeriodicalPress #NineteenthCentury
Also quite pleased with how we've got #MedievalSky, #EarlyModern #EighteenthCentury, #NineteenthCentury, AND present-day museums in there.
That a lot to pack into a tiny plot of land reclaimed from the sea (for now...)
Now available in January 2026. My book Comical Modernity: Popular Humour and the Transformation of Urban Space in Late Nineteenth-Century Vienna has just come out in paperback! Find out more here: bit.ly/3MNglZV
#History #AustrianStudies #NineteenthCentury
Cancan de la chatte
Le cancan est une danse de salon caractérisée par des mouvements rapides, des sauts et le relèvement des jupes, typique du XIXe siècle en France. #Danse #Rapide #Salon #France #NineteenthCentury
Sacred to the memory of SARAH PRICE CLARKE. who was the only surviving issue and heiress of GODFREY CLARKE Esq. of Sutton Hall in the County of Derby. She departed this life in the city of Exeter on the 24 of November 1801. In her were united all the virtues which give dignity to birth, or utility to fortune. Her mind possessed an energy which does not often mark the female character Her friendship was warm, and her charity was never restrained by individual convenience. Her bosom was the seat of those energies which give activity to virtue. Possessed of superior talents and unimpeached honour, she never pursued frivolity with severity, or the loss of fame with triumph. Her latter years were marked by declining health, and her sufferings by patience. Her faith was fervent, her reward is sure.
A favourite plaque in Exeter Cathedral.
Highly illustrative of patriarchal attitudes to women in the period and also of the prevalence of many years of illness leading to death.
#Death #Women #Patriarchy #NineteenthCentury #Exeter
I also happen to have a (roughly 30 min) presentation that goes along with this, and am available for online conferences, sessions, classes etc. if you want to know more!
#victorianist #nineteenthcentury #19thC
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#hohensalzburg #fortress is a large #medieval #fortress in #salzburg, #austria. It is located at an #altitude of 506m on top of #festungsburg #mountain. It was refurbished in the #nineteenthcentury and is now one of the best #preserved #castles in #europe. #travelphotography
Our second 'Dracula' adaption this season - this time with fantastic beat-boxing, a capella pop songs. and a really funny script by Dan Paterson. Park theatre is a great little venue too. #Gothic #Dracula #nineteenthcentury #FrontRowFun
The RHS Plant Collector Archive is a unique collection of papers associated with the 12 plant collectors and their journeys. For the first time they are now fully catalogued, digitised, and free for everyone to access #skystorians #gardenhistory #nineteenthcentury
collections.rhs.org.uk/view/343871
More close looking at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery's
Pre-Raphaelite works, this time thinking about Alexander Munro's Paolo and Francesca serenatrowbridge.substack.com/p/paolo-and-...
@preraphaelitesoc.bsky.social #preraphaelite #art #sculpture #dante #nineteenthcentury #birmingham
Monday Blues
John Davenport 1820 (Longton, Staffordshire) "Chinoiserie Ruins" pattern
#blueandwhitepottery #blueandwhite #johndavenport #chinoiserieruins #chinoiserie #interiordesign #antiqueart #antiques #beautyathome #1820s #staffordshire #19thcentury #antiquario #antiquités #nineteenthcentury
Good morning, Bluesky: it’s time for a #themed #DailyTeaser #quiz.
It’s about the #London #BeerFlood of the early #NineteenthCentury
The video from @jagohazzard.bsky.social about it is interesting: as is J. Draper’s
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Detail from Ordnance Survey map showing Carlisle’s Manure Works and Varnish Works.
#Victorian innovation never ceases to amaze me. If there was a process needing industrialising, scaling, and making more efficient, they found the solution. Exhibit #1: how Carlisle solved the tricky problem of polishing its turds. #OrdnanceSurvey #Map #Manure #EnvHist #NneteenthCentury #History
There is just one week to go until the Malton Regency Ball!
Book your tickets on our website here: www.maltonmuseum.co.uk/online-booki...
#regency #georgianera #nineteenthcentury #regencyball #history #museum
It's official - 'Finding Mary: The Untold Story of an Inishowen Murder' is out.
I hope I've done justice to Mary Doherty's short life, ended violently when she was just 14.
Available now at www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/2025/f...
#irishhistory #nineteenthcentury #donegal #womenshistory #inishowen
Daibutsu; Kamakura, Japan. Photo by Felice Beato, from 1865. #analogphotography #blackandwhitephotography #buddha #daibutsu #felicebeato #japan #kamakura #monument #nineteenthcentury
Colorful illustrated calendar from The Youth’s Companion, dated A.D. 1879, showing October, November, and December months. The central illustration depicts three children harvesting apples: one boy in a hat gathering apples into a large basket, another boy reaching up to pick fruit from the tree, and a girl in a long yellow dress holding a small pail. Decorative floral borders surround the scene. At the bottom, a motto reads: ‘Not by companionship alone, by what one reads, a man is known.’
🍂 Happy First Day of Fall! 🍁 As we bid farewell to summer's warmth, let's embrace the autumn!
Image from American Broadsides and Ephemera, 1749-1900.
#NineteenthCentury #19thCentury #FallFestivities #AutumnVibes
Daytime scene in a large city beneath a very old stone pedestrian tunnel which spans under a 4-track wide section of commuter railroad track; dating back to the 1890's, this viaduct is part of the MTA Metro North railway system, other portions of which are undergoing construction due to aging and deterioration, however this section is still in great condition; in the distance, at the other end of the tunnel is the daylight of a mostly sunny day as a delivery bike passes by, a walking signal has counted down to four seconds, and a mother (or nanny) approaches pushing a stroller (pram) along the sidewalk (pavement) which is covered by construction scaffolding.
New York photo of the day.
Manhattan.
78°F (26° C), mostly sunny.
#NYC #City #NineteenthCentury #Tunnel #Bridge #Viaduct #MTA #MetroNorth #PedestrianInfrastructure
Lady Florence Caroline Dixie
The character of photographer Sophia Munro in Avarice of Empire was inspired, in part, by Lady Florence Caroline Dixie who was a Scottish feminist, writer, traveller and war correspondent. Read more about her here: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Fl...
#history #feminism #nineteenthcentury
*Announcing a new book in the Interventions: Rethinking the #NineteenthCentury series*
Victorian legs, By Clayton Tarr
This book advances critical discourse on the #Victorian body, considering the science and sexuality of legs during the #C19th
www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781...
Doing a side quest piece of research that's nothing to do with the #PhD (thanks ADHD) but hitting a block. Does anyone know of vampire related activity/stories/folklore etc. in Whitby pre. Dracula? #history #nineteenthcentury #vampires
preparing the meal (after ridgway knight) 101x76cm
oil on canvas
#nineteenthcentury #cuisine #cloth #food #foodart #dinner #rabbits #pattern #texture #form #structure #thesimplelife #peasants #rural #floral #kitsch #nature #surrealism #surrealart #longago #greens #blues #pinks #plants #greenery
#GustaveCaillebotte was born #OnThisDay in 1848, producing his iconic masterpiece, "Rue de Paris, temps de pluie" (Paris Street, Rainy Day), one of the greatest works of #art created in #NineteenthCentury #France (1877)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris_S...
Extract from a Victorian minute book, hand-written, mentioning ‘Bladder Hy’ or Henry Bladder
Extract from a Victorian minute book, hand-written, mentioning Mr Crapper.
The #joy of working in #archives. On Tuesday I found a reference to on Mr Crapper selling land to be used as part of Walsall’s sewage farm. Today I found a Henry Bladder providing horses, labour, and tools to the sewage farm at Malvern. Writing the #history of […]
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