🗃️ #c19th #19thc #Luddites #Luddism

Any books articles podcast eps etc you know that tells Luddite history in a new, positive light, optionally relating it to current tech-labour situation?

I'm particularly interested in stuff by academic historians as other stuff I'm able to find with more ease.

#onthisday, 28 March 1875, #TurkishBaths opened for two days each week in Gordon Street, #Forres, Scotland. Tickets from the Booksellers, Post Office, & members of the Forres Sanitary Association. Thursdays for Females, Saturdays for Males. Charges 10.00-1.00 1/-; 3.00-7.00 6d. Closed 1881. 🗃️ #C19th

Cover showing a male, dark-haired vampire scowling scowlily at us. His cape has multiple layers of shoulder details. His pecs are blood-spackled. Behind him hovers what may be either a bat or a chandelier (possibly AI could not decide).

📚"Covers designed by folk who didn't bother to read the book"
Episode 1: Florence Marryat's Blood of the Vampire (1897).

This book features a female vampire who doesn't know she's a vampire, who drains life not blood, and is enjoying a holiday in a Belgian seaside town.
#BadBookCovers #C19th

#c19th 🗃️ #history #skystorians

Portrait of Walt Whitman (1819-1892) / Wikimedia Commons

On this date 134 years ago, Walt Whitman (1819-1892)’s death date.

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British coins

1 pound = 4 crowns = 10 florins = 20 shillings = 240 pence = 960 farthings

but

1 guinea or sovereign = 21 shillings

#history #c18th #c19th

Portrait of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von (Novalis) Hardenberg (1772-1801) / Wikimedia Commons

Portrait of Anna Seward (1747-1809) / Wikimedia Commons

Portrait of Friederike Brun (1765-1835) / Wikimedia Commons

On this day, death of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von (Novalis) Hardenberg (1772-1801), Anna Seward (1747-1809), and Friederike Brun (1765-1835).

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Portrait of Mary Tighe (1772-1810) / Wikimedia Commons

Portrait of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) / Wikimedia Commons

OTD, death of Mary Tighe (1772-1810) and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882).

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Seating chart: Leo Vincey, Catherine Earnshaw, Van Helsing, Jane Eyre, The Signalman, Mina Harker, Charles Darwin, Anne Bronte, Anna Sewell, Beatrix Potter, Dr Seward, Dr Jekyll (Mr Hyde by pudding), Marian Halcombe, Wilkie Collins (who would propose to MH by coffee), Sarah Bernhardt, Count Fosco, Napoleon Sarony, Lady Audley, Quincey Morris, Rosalie Murray. Sherlock Holmes declined and is now hiding at home with all the lights off. ME Brandon sadly declines. She has a deadline to meet.

⭐️ The results are in!! My wonderful hons class have made their choices for dream Victorian Popular Fiction dinner party.

Who are you adding and where are you sitting?! #c19th

The new @bavs-uk.bsky.social newsletter is looking gorgeous after its refresh! It also features our halloween workshops for kids at the historic Mackintosh at the Willow tearoom, where we explored the history & ethics of sugar consumption & what it means to be a 'sugar vampire'! Thanks BAVS! #C19th

Exterior of the baths building, with two main storeys and windowed roof rooms. At the front is a circular portico on which is written SWIMMING BATHS TURKISH.

Drawing of a long corridor with Turkish bath cubicles on either side.

Photo of the plunge pool and a shampooing area with two slabs and sinks. The pool is empty and the steps down one end can be seen. (Photo: Bournemouth Libraries)

Drawing of the mikveh, a ritual bath which requires running water, and is used by Jews on special occasions, but particularly by women after childbirth or menstruation. Bournemouth was one of a number of local authorities which made such provision as part of their women’s Turkish baths suite. The rectangular pool has a ledge around it and its steps at the near end. In front of the steps, at the level of the top of the ledge, is a raised section with a curved front, steps on either side, and a protective rail making the front look rather like a conductor's podium.

#onthisday, 23 March 1937, #Bournemouth Council opened the £80,000 Pier Approach Baths designed by Kenneth M B Cross, with seawater swimming pool, slipper baths, Victorian-style #TurkishBaths, and a mikveh. Each hot room had its own hot air inlet. The baths closed on 1 December 1984. +ALT 🗃️ #C19th

#onthisday, 23 March 1870, the Mayor of #Melbourne officially opened the Victorian #TurkishBaths (with a large "Moresque" style cooling-room) in the Royal Arcade, Bourke Street. Mr Pietriche, the proprietor, was moving from his smaller baths in Lonsdale St. Refurbished 1904. Closed 1929. 🗃️ #C19th

Portrait of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) / Wikimedia Commons

This day 194 years ago: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)’s death date.

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The cooling-room with Lloyd Loom type chairs and tables, glazed brick walls, and a circular rug. (Photo: Teesside Archives)

View through the hot rooms with two bathers reclining. Its cooling-room may have been unexceptional, but in the hot rooms, as in Birmingham's Kent Street baths, there was a 1930s take on the keyhole arch; here it was the main design motif, though the Horlicks sign on the wall was probably a bit of private enterprise on the part of the baths attendant. (Photo: Teesside Archives)  

As late as the 1950s, the baths were so popular that, according to the Belfast News-Letter (and several other papers on 21 Nov 1956), 'Because some women take too long to have a Turkish bath, Middlesbrough's all-male Sanitary and Baths Committee decided to impose a time limit of four hours. Recommending this in his report the baths superintendent[, Mr S Fisher,] said that on women's days some patrons stay in the baths for six or seven hours.'

There were originally three shampooing slabs altogether, but one completely disappeared within days of the baths closing, and when Val Harrison took this photograph in 1995, one of the others was damaged. The pigeon droppings speak for themselves.

#onthisday, 22 March 1933, #Middlesbrough Corporation opened Victorian-style #TurkishBaths in Gilkes Street. There were three hot rooms, a shampooing room with 3 slabs, cooling-room, electric, medicated, and Russian steam baths. Nice 30s' take on keyhole arch. Closed 1988. Demolished 1998. 🗃️ #C19th

Portrait of Robert Southey (1774-1843) / Wikimedia Commons

Portrait of Robert Southey (1774-1843) / Wikimedia Commons

On this day, Robert Southey (1774-1843) and Robert Southey (1774-1843) died this day.

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Exterior of the baths from an ad in the Evening Post (1 April 1892). Two storey building with canopy over main entrance. A man (possibly the manager?) stands under the canopy.

Picture postcard overprinted with Christmas and New Year Greetings. Wide view of Lambton Quay with buildings on either side and a tram running down the centre. Behind waiting horse-drawn conveyances is a large hoarding advertising the Turkish baths.

#onthisday, 21 March 1892, J W Hall & Sons, of Dunedin and Christchurch, #NewZealand, opened #TurkishBaths in Manners Street, #Wellington. The local council purchased them in 1915 to run temporarily prior to road widening, but the war intervened and the baths closed that year. 🗃️ #C19th

Portrait of Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884) / Wikimedia Commons

This day 142 years ago: death of Elias Lönnrot (1802-1884).

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A trade card for the Turkish baths at the Bridge of Allan Hydro. An oval vignette shows the exterior of the building in its ‘quasi-oriental’ style. The building appears to be in three sections, the large one being the same length as the two shorter ones taken together. Its main ground level feature is a series of high arched ‘cloisters’. The inner short section differs and has a number of domes above. The outer short section has a decorated chimney above. All the corners have faux minarets. Underneath the image and title, lines of text at each corner note that the bath was 87 feet long, and that the hot rooms were from 18 to 25 foot high. (Image: Aberdeen City Libraries)

Although captioned 'Turkish Baths, Bridge of Allan' this view shows only the hydro which was built three years later. (See next image)

A treen wool-holder, around 10 cm in diameter, with three vignettes illustrating aspects of the Bridge of Allan Hydro. The one in the previous illustration is shown at the front.

An advertisement, probably from a contemporary local directory, showing the hydro building prior to the addition of the Turkish baths in 1862, although built three years later than the baths. According to the Stirling Observer (16 March 1865) these had not been as popular as expected since, without adjoining accommodation, those wishing to spend several days at the baths had to find local places to stay.

#onthisday, 19 March 1862, William Archibald opened #TurkishBaths at #BridgeOfAllan, Scotland at a cost £2,000. There were separate days for men & women. "Refreshments, Cigars, Tobacco, etc, of the Best Quality" were available. See also +ALT. 🗃️ #C19th

#onthisday, 19 March 1892, #Bingley Council opened public baths within its then Town Hall, Myrtle Grove. In addition to its four-room #TurkishBaths, there were two First Class and five Second Class slipper baths. They closed some time around 1927 when the town's first swimming pool opened. 🗃️ #C19th

Barter’s first Turkish bath for the general public designed by Mr Richard Barter (no relation to the doctor) and constructed by local builder Denis Murray. This detail shows what was described as a ‘Grecian’ front with three windows and two doors, all arched and surmounted by circular lights of stained glass. Between the two entrances, one for men and the other for women, was a central ticket office. Both sets of baths were similar, being 80ft × 20ft (24.4m × 6m) in area. (Detail from a photo in The Lawrence Photograph Collection Lab 6448. The National Library of Ireland)

The baths seem to have closed in the late 1880s, and in my 2006 photograph the building appears, at first glance, to have been replaced by an apartment block. But closer examination shows that the ground floor façade is basically the same, while there are two additional floors above. The corners of the front of the building remain rounded at the ground floor level although door and window openings have been interchanged.

The upper image shows the cooling-room in Barter’s second Turkish bath in the Irish capital (the Dublin Hammam) at 11 and 12 Upper Sackville Street, later renamed Upper O’Connell Street. The room is two storeys high with a balcony behind which are changing cubicles above those at the ground floor level. At the far end is a large arched opening. In the main area are deck chairs and recliners, and an occasional table. There are two statues, one of which is on the balcony. The lower image shows the exterior of the building. The frontage shows a typical Georgian four storey building, previously occupied by Reynold's Hotel. The Turkish baths were built behind and adjoining the renamed Hammam Hotel.

Armoured cars outside the Hammam during the 1922 Irish Civil War. Most of the windows have been broken and the main doorway and remaining windows destroyed. Although pounded by rifles, grenades, and machine-guns from 2–5 July, those hiding inside escaped. A few hours after this photo was taken, the building was completely destroyed by shells and fire. The baths were never rebuilt. (Dublin City Library and Archive)

#onthisday 17 March—St Patrick's Day—Dr Richard Barter opened 2 Irish-Roman (Victorian Turkish) baths: in 1859, the 1st #TurkishBaths in Ireland for public use at 9 Grenville Place, #Cork; & in 1869, his 2nd #Dublin baths at Sackville—now O'Connell—St. Before & after pix +ALT 🗃️ #irishhistory #C19th

Contemporary newspaper advertisement for Le Hammam Bains Turco-Romains. Cut shows large betowelled male bather facing forwards. To his right a view of the double-galleried cooling-room overlooking the plunge pool. Beneath the illustration are the admission charges: men Fr 5.50; women Fr 10.00. A special Turkish bath for women is entered at 47 Bd Haussmann [round the corner from the men's main entrance].

Reproduction of a sepia photography by Félix Nadar of the tepidarium, a large circular, domed room with benches round the periphery. Full height keyhole arched openings lead to other parts of the baths. Bathers sit around, while some chat together.

Cut, being the main central part of a plate from Le Recueil d'Architecture, showing the two level cooling-room with low level partitioned rest cubicles, each with a couch. Halfway down the room a central plunge pool continues under a plate glass division into the tepidarium. The style of decoration is simpler than that in the London Hammam.

Exterior façade in recent years. The building seems to be seven storeys high and the interior has been gutted and converted to offices. At street level, and at the third and fourth floor levels, original keyhole shaped windows and doorways remain, with some horizontal polychromatic brickwork.

#onthisday, 16 March 1876, Le Hammam Bains Turco-Romains, the Victorian #TurkishBaths in #Paris modelled on the London Hammam, opened at 18 Rue Neuve des Mathurins. Bathers included the Prince of Wales, Toulouse-Lautrec, Oscar Wilde, & Paul Verlaine. Closed in 1954; only its façade remains. 🗃️ #C19th

Monochrome photo of the exterior of the five-storey hotel, with a HOTEL ST GEORGE sign on the roof. On the ground floor, on either side of the main entrance, are a number of shops. To the left of the main entrance is a smaller one leading to the Turkish baths, with a banner sign over.

Close up of the entrance to the Turkish baths. The baths company went into voluntary liquidation in 1913 and the baths were re-opened by The New Turkish Baths Co Ltd. Some of the original company directors were well-known local names such as S H Reece (Dairyman), R Kirkland (Baker) and MJ Blackler.

#onthisday, 16 March 1910, the #Liverpool Turkish Bath & Toilet Co Ltd opened #TurkishBaths in Lime Street below St George Hotel, opposite Lime Street Station. They comprised frigidarium, tepidarium, caldarium, and laconicum (hottest), showers & shampooing room. Destroyed in the Blitz +ALT 🗃️ #C19th

Portrait of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803) / Wikimedia Commons

This day 223 years ago: death of Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724-1803).

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Eureka Stockade, 1854: Australia’s only armed uprising. The Ballarat Reform League Charter drawn up largely by English Chartists and Irish Confederates made the same political demands as the People’s Charter
#Chartism #C19th #History

Turkish baths attendant sitting outside the hot rooms reached through three doorways designed as a 20th century take on the Islamic keyhole-shaped arch. Two bathers working up a sweat in the hot rooms.

Are internal doorways allowed on #AdoorableThursday? If so, here are three interlinked doorways to the hot rooms in the Victorian-style #TurkishBaths at Gilkes Street, Middlesbrough, opened in 1933 and, sadly, demolished in 1998. 🗃️ #C19th

Celebrating one of our greatest Gaelic poets: Màiri Mhòr nan Òran LAST week I said I would be writing about the early years of the Union after 1707 and telling the untold story – never mentioned by the Unionists…

The #C19th Gaelic poet & songwriter Màiri Nic a’ Phearsain (Mary MacPherson) – known as Màiri Mhòr nan Òran (Great Mary of the Songs) – was born #OTD, 10 March 1821. Much of her work was political & was especially focused on the struggle for land rights
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Portrait of Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825) / Wikimedia Commons

On this day (201 years ago), Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743-1825)’s death date.

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Chartist Lives - now out in hardback, paperback and ebook formats.
#Chartism #C19th #BritishHistory 🗃️
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G3Q7PR7Y

Why You Should Read Allan Ramsay’s 'The Gentle Shepherd' - Why You Should Read Allan Ramsay’s 'The Gentle Shepherd' a Q&A with Edinburgh University Press author, Steve Newman

What 1725 Scottish play was called ‘the noblest pastoral’ by Robert Burns, inspired more than 40 paintings, & was performed throughout Scotland as late as the end of the #C19th? Steven Newman considers Allan Ramsay’s most famous work
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‘Footsteps’. Statues at Franklin Wharf, Hobart, commemorating the 13,000 women transported to Van Diemen’s Land, and the 2,000 children they brought with them, 1803-53
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