Eat tapeworm eggs, lose weight: The terrifying Victorian practice whose myth refuses to die.

Women have long gone to extreme lengths to fit into their era’s beauty canon — let’s examine the truths and lies behind the supposed Ozempic of the Victorian era.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260404-eat-tapeworm-eggs-lose-weight-the-terrifying-victorian-practice-whose-myth-refuses-to-die?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#Beauty #Tapeworm #Health #Weightloss #Women #Victorians #History

The #Victorians, Part 1 of 2

https://bit.ly/3NMQp1w

#AShortHistoryOf

#ClassWar #classism #workhouses #antipoor #antipoorhate #ACAB #RobertPeel #ACAB #peelers #classstruggle

The #Victorians, Part 2 of 2

https://bit.ly/47YEEfd

#AShortHistoryOf

#empire #evil #colonialism #exploitation #expropriation #racism #classism #opiumwars #EastIndiaCompany
#India #Ireland #WestAfricanCountries #Resistance

Michelle Pfeiffer and #KurtRussell Break #Down What -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/canada.html#11

Refiners in #India, #Asia look to buy #Iranian oil after -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#Baku

#TSA officers are quitting as a funding standoff forces -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/us-capitals.html#BatonRouge

#Ukraine Exploits #Russian #Starlink Blackout To Push -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/world-capitals.html#Kyiv

Exact date new #UK passport rule will come into force -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#bhamlive

#Victorians got Battle of Hastings wrong, expert says -
https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/p/uk.html#1

Victorian WOW Day Brings History to Life for Year 5 pupils

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewspost.co.uk/victorian-wow-day-brings-history-to-life-for-year-5-pupils/

This companion has been invaluable during my reading of the Chronicles of Barsetshire

#Books #Trollope #VictorianLiterature #Victorians #Reading

Okay I am FASCINATED by this ad & announcement from the 1870s

I mean, Satan taking a keg – into hell – is just a throwaway background detail

"At J. W. Tufts' arctic pavilion... may be seen the largest and most magnificent soda water apparatus in the world. Its towering height of costly marbles, and its elegant architecture, (embellished with a tropical garden) ... altogether constitutes the grandest achievement of this description that has ever been accomplished.

"Its immense ice-cavern is reached by a flight of stairs from the cellar, and in its ample space, numbers of workmen perform their duties of supplying it with ice and its delicious fruit syrups, with perfect freedom. Height, 33 feet. Value $25,000. Pay it a visit."

from the Centennial Exhibition (World's Fair), Philadelphia PA

#oldadvertisements #oldadverts #polarbears #devil #soda #victorians #philadelphia #Pennsylvania #victorian

So much #OldSchoolTech in these shows!

#VictorianFarm - Christmas Special
2009 · 1 Season

TV-PG
Documentary

"Discover in depth how the #Victorians created the celebration of #Christmas as we know it today."

https://tubitv.com/series/246/victorian-farm-christmas-special

#OldWays #Histodon

This is my clay pipe fragment collection.

The loose ones are all from my garden (house is probably ex-farmhouse, built c. 1840). The ones in the bag are local, but from not-my-garden.

I like how they are all different thicknesses. A couple of fragments seem to be mouth-end ones. I do not have any bits that have enough intact bowl to identify much information/guess a date.

The single piece is my newest addition. I forgot about it temporarily as it was still drying from being washed.

I guess I'm sharing this because I find it interesting and probably someone on the Fediverse will find it interesting too. Or at least it'll break up doomscrolling.

#History #ClayPipe #IndustrialArchaeology #Victorians #DomesticHistory