Saartjie Baartman: The Hottentot Venus Who Aroused The Victorians - https://t.co/uJIu7aGhEM

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"For the Victorians, butterfly collecting was a mainstream hobby – less bloodthirsty than fox hunting and safer than stealing eggs"
Read the full issue here
https://t.co/qHc3VIHNxj

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During Queen Victoria’s reign big changes took place in the way people spent their leisure time. Take a look:
https://t.co/CsjLsD1vwB

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Looking for Inspiration for your Victorians topic. This book is fantastic! It contains lots of exciting facts, fun illustrations and amazing activities.

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A very Merry Christmas to all my readers and followers. To celebrate this special day, I'm sending you a Christmas card showing some vengeful-looking birds armed with matches.

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Seriously Hallmark, you need to up your game like the Victorians.

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Don't forget, sales for the Organization Thirst-teen calendar are still going strong! All proceeds go to The Trevor Project <3
Here's another sneak peek at my month (and some salacious ankle action for all you Victorians out there)
Buy now!
https://t.co/upDLwNsLNS

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Find out about how the Victorians invented Mass Entertainment from Music Halls to the Seaside to Football with Lee Jackson at our Stories of Victorian Entertainment Day on 22 February 2020.
Full details and tickets from link https://t.co/RUQ6OwETL5

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handfish and olm victorians

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Q. What was Halloween to the Victorians?
A. A bit kooky, a bit spooky.
In our Victorian mansion, learn how 1800s England handled superstitions, mortality, grief and the occult. A night of daring fun, food, drink. Costumes encouraged.
BOO!k your tickets.
https://t.co/6AzrqMyUDK

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A "spirited" Victorian Halloween in a Victorian mansion.
Hear tales that terrified Victorians. House tours with a grim Victorian twist. Tarot readings. Victorian "spirit" photo booth. Scarily good cash-bar/ treats by Meez Catering.
https://t.co/sBmxsygtGJ

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A "spirited" Victorian Halloween in a Victorian mansion.
Hear tales that terrified Victorians. House tours with a grim Victorian twist. Tarot readings. Victorian "spirit" photo booth. Scarily good cash-bar/ treats by Meez Catering.
https://t.co/sBmxsxYSi9

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Do Halloween Victorian style in a Victorian mansion!
Readings of tales that terrified Victorians. House tours with a spooky Victorian twist. Tarot readings. Victorian Spirit photo booth. Frighteningly good cash-bar/ treats by Meez Catering.
https://t.co/sBmxsygtGJ

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Fab pic from thefiveoclockhero via Instagram: 'The original entrance hall... to a library.... the Victorians really didn’t mess about did they??' Follow us for more incredible pics https://t.co/pYPg1r4kPl

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FLOWERS PERSONIFIED 2. Victorians merged the laws of propriety with the language of flowers; nun-like Water Lily, or Nenuphar; sleep/death inducing precocious Poppy or Pavot, shrinking Violet or Violette from J.J Grandville's Les Fleurs Animées, 1847

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Anyway, enough of blinking Mogg, here's some proper Victorians ...

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When you think of the age do you think of black & white photos and coal smoke? Actually the Victorians loved riotous colours as this exclusive from an 1870 at shows https://t.co/JH4TkoCSyk

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