Slip Into Something Victorian Blog

With a population 20,000 less than the normal 60,000 required for statehood, Congress nevertheless admitted Nevada as the 36th state in the ...

Happy Halloween! Since the town and battle of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania both figure prominently in both my novel, Under the Guns, and my wor...

While we fought our 'Great Civil War' (Abe Lincoln) , the second military conflict over Schleswig-Holstein succession question was b...

After a string of seven business failures, Roland Macy finally hit the jackpot in 1858 when he founded his own department store, named R.H. ...

After years of feuding and mounting tensions, on this day in 1881, the “law and order” Earps and the “cowboy” Clanton-McLaurys engage in the...

Lord James Cardigan led a charge of the Light Brigade Cavalry against well-defended Russian artillery during the Crimean War at the Battle o...

Annie Edson Taylor, 63, was the first to take the plunge. While not the first person over the falls (and who knows how many were tossed over...

The New York Stock Exchange put memberships up for sale for the first time in its 77-year history. They sold for $8000 (over $100,000 now)....

Victorians were trendy. Their entertainments reflected their awareness of trends, and their societal need to keep apace. Napoleon III ran hi...

In 1844, Millerites, followers of William Miller (once a Baptist), believed that the end of the world, in conjunction with the Second Advent...

The medical profession of the 19th century didn't readily accept women into their ranks. The first school for nurses wasn't even est...

In 1854, Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 women volunteer nurses, trained by Nightingale and including her aunt, Mai Smith, went to th...

Born in Hungry, Lugosi established himself as a successful actor before immigrating to the US in 1921. He was a great success onstage in 192...

In 1869, Prussian-born mining engineer, Adolph Sutro, began work on four-mile-long tunnel through the solid rock of the Comstock Lode. Miner...

The Victorian era was a time of great advances in medicine. But like in earlier centuries, people did die regularly of disease--cholera, inf...

Larger in area than all but 18 of the world's nations, Alaska is derived from the Aleut Alyeska, meaning "great country", ...

Have you ever received a rejection that included the words “ not what we’re looking for at this time ?” A rejection just can’t get more vag...

The inaugural tournament (commonly known as the British Open) was restricted to professionals. Those original eight played three rounds of t...

The College for Women, was located at Benslow House, Hitchin, in Hertfordshire, England. Relocated northwest of the centre of Cambridge, nex...

Determined to resist the loss of his homeland, Victorio began leading his small band of warriors on a long series of devastating raids again...