Slip Into Something Victorian Blog

Thought I'd pass along these interesting period quotes I came across in a special edition of The Citizens' Companion , a periodical ...

An interest in classical heraldic elements was revived during the Victorian Era, hand-in-hand with the revival of Elizabethan and Renaissanc...

Twelve years of unchecked expansion (1865-1873), the economy was bloated from inflation, an excess of speculation, and one man’s mistake com...

It involved the Japanese and the Chinese navies, and was the largest naval engagement of the First Sino-Japanese War. The Yalu River is the ...

Considered worthless desert some years before 1893, on Sept. 16 of that year, 100,000+ people gathered in the Cherokee Strip of Oklahoma to ...

I wanted to do something on this, but couldn't find anything about this last day, only the war itself. So Dear Agatha is was! In 1873, t...

When I first became a Civil War reenactor, I had a lot of misconceptions about how women wore their hair back then. Most of this misinformat...

Not that it has anything to do directl y with the Victorian Era, but in 1814 Frances Scott Key composed the Star Spangled Banner. It was reg...

When a lady found herself with idle time on her hands, a few of her choices for spending her time included: * charity work any or every day ...

9/13 In 1862, “Union soldiers [found] a copy of Confederate General Robert E. Lee's orders detailing the Confederates' plan for the ...

9/12 In 1898, Elizabeth Dunning (daughter of a US Congressman and wife of John Dunning, bureau chief for the Associated Press) and her siste...

9/11 Most of us know what happened today in 2001. ( http://www.theseptemberproject.org/ and http://www.september11news.com/ ) I’m lucky to ...

September 10. Apparently, it wasn’t difficult to tell that George Smith was drunk while driving. The swerving gave him away. http://www.hist...

It was a tough choice today – President Grover Cleveland’s baby’s birth, or California becoming the 31st state. I chose the baby only becaus...

On September 8, 1900, a deadly hurricane hit Galveston, Texas, killing between 6,000 and 12,000; it was so overwhelming and caused so much d...

On Saturday September 23 at 8 pm (EST) The History Channel will be showing a one-hour special on restoring an 1891 Victorian House. As part ...

An explosion of interest in gardens occurred during the Victorian age. This period was celebrated for its progress, invention, new ideas, an...

Times were changing during the Victorian era for nearly every echelon of Society. Although formal mistresses were historically prominent in ...

Here's a little known fact I uncovered while researching Victorian wallpaper--some of it has arsenic in it. Apparently arsenic was used ...

I have to credit Denise with this idea. I was casting about trying to decide what I wanted to blog about next when I learned to my surprise ...