Mastodawn

View in gardens, Grange-over-Sands, England between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900. Views of the British Isles England Grange-over-Sands

#Grange #England #Victorian #English #VictorianBritain #photography #historicalPhotos #photochrom

https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002696777/

Ancient Origins Aug 22, 2025

How the Racist Study of Skulls Gripped Victorian Britain’s Scientists
Victorian Britain's leading universities amassed thousands of human skulls to support racist "science" that claimed head measurements could determine intelligence and civilization levels. The legacy of 19th-century craniometry still haunts academic institutions today.
#VictorianBritain #Victorianscience #victorian #ancienthistory

https://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/victorian-craniometry-0022371

This Is My Glasgow Jun 16, 2025

Separate side-by-side bells for Visitors and Servants at the entrance to a 1870s Townhouse on Athole Gardens in West End of Glasgow.

#glasgow #architecture #victorianbritain #glasgowbuildings #doorbell #doorfurniture #architecturephotography

Of Bookish Things Nov 5, 2024

Why #Ghosts wear clothes or white sheets instead of appearing in the nude

In 1863 #GeorgeCruikshank, the #Caricaturist and #BookIllustrator of #CharlesDickens’s #Novels, announced:

"That anyone has ever thought of the gross absurdity and impossibility of there being such things as ghosts of wearing apparel … Ghosts cannot, must not, dare not, for decency’s sake, appear without clothes; and as there can be no such thing as ghosts or spirits of clothes, why then, it appears that ghosts never did appear and never can appear."

Stories of naked or clothesless ghosts, especially outside #Folklore, are exceedingly rare

Note: #Ghost in white sheet (Funeral Shroud)

#Victorian #VictorianBritain #VictorianSocialClass #Mid19thCentury #Spiritualism #PsychicalResearch #GhostStories #VictorianLiterature #Paranormal #AndrewLang

https://theconversation.com/why-ghosts-wear-clothes-or-white-sheets-instead-of-appearing-in-the-nude-241948

Why ghosts wear clothes or white sheets instead of appearing in the nude

The issue of ghost clothes is interesting for historians of the supernatural because, like a loose thread, pulling at it starts to unravel some of the assumptions about matter in spiritualism.

The Conversation

marcas Jul 17, 2024

Have you ever been to Exhibition Square in York? Come along with me and find out all about it.

#yorkartgallery #york #art #boothambar #exhibitionsquare #williametty #artgallery #artcollections #cityofyork #yorksogoodtheynameditonce #gàidhlig #gaelic #urbanart #artist #contemporaryart #visualart #yorkwalk #scottishgaelic #gaidhlig #yorkcitycentre #yorkengland #goodvibes #historicyork #history #architecture #urbanplanning #victorians #victorianyork #victorianengland #victorianbritain

Sean Bala Apr 22, 2024

Found this way deep in my YouTube "Watch Later" collection. It's a really nice guide to getting started with Charles Dickens including a recommended order for select books from Robert Douglas-Fairhurst. It is inspiring to see someone so passionate about their subject.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aryB10D04jw

Might add these to my 2024 Reading List!

#Books #Bookstodon #CharlesDickens #RobertDouglasFairhurst #PenguinClassics #Literature #BritishLiterature #Victorian #VictorianBritain #ReadingLists @bookstodon

Where To Start With Charles Dickens with Robert Douglas-Fairhurst

YouTube

This Is My Glasgow Apr 8, 2024

Separate side-by-side bells for Visitors and Servants at the entrance to a 1870s Townhouse on Athole Gardens in West End of Glasgow. The fact that even the door bells are more ornate for the visitors than the servants says something about the times these buildings were built in.

#glasgow #architecture #victorianbritain #glasgowbuildings #doorbell #doorfurniture #glasgowhistory