Slip Into Something Victorian Blog

It was a short-lived state formed by former Tokugawa retainers in Hokkaido, the northernmost, sparsely populated island of modern Japan. In ...

From my writing journals: Research for my Victorian era story led me to the former badlands around Nevada one year. With enough history for...

Although the Irish immigrants arriving in America had come to escape hunger and oppression, they found that life for them didn't change ...

In 1843 Charles Dickens (officially) published A Christmas Carol in England. All 6,000 copies sold out by the 22nd. That's the kind of ...

Opened today in 1892 at the Mariinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Tchaikovsky didn't like the ballet, considered it a less successful pie...

Secret service agencies were sprouting up from spy networks, by 1866, as well as from protection service agencies. Although secret service ...

During the Holiday season, what do you do? Do you write? Do you even have time? Or do you take a 6 week break to get things ready? Does Janu...

It opened in 1896, and is the third oldest subway system after the London Underground (January 1863) and the Budapest Metro (May 1896). Orig...

The Great Hunger (an Gorta M’or): Ireland 1845-1850 There are many fallacies about the Irish Famine. One of them is that there was no food t...

Guglielmo Marconi, Italian physicist and radio pioneer, succeeded in sending the first radio transmission across the Atlantic Ocean. By doin...

P. B. S. Pinchback was the first African-American to become governor of a U.S. state. Pinchback, a Republican, served as the governor of Lou...

Activist Marguerite Durand founded the feminist newspaper, first published in France. Using her high profile name, she attracted notable Par...

Since both my works in progress, Erin's Rebel and Katie Rose feature Irish immigrants at the time of the Civil War, and many Irish fou...

The first concert by the Philharmonic Society of New York took place today in 1842. Ureli Corelli Hill, was its first president, first condu...

The Washington Monument is a 550-foot obelisk and still stands in the middle of Washington, D.C.’s Capitol Mall. Washington died in 1799. T...

He was a lawyer and judge, from Nova Scotia, as well as Premier of Nova Scotia, and became the 4th Prime Minister of Canada. He was a Conser...

The Dei Gratia spotted the Mary Celeste . She was sailing erratically but at full sail, though they were slightly damaged, near the Azores ...

Classifying Teddy Roosevelt as moderate at anything is laughable, especially with the nickname: "Bully" Activist. Yet during his 1...

A battle in the Philippine-American War, and fought in northern Luzon, Philippines. Commanded by a 23 year Tagalog, Brigadier General Gregor...

Though the exact date is unknown, but the US Patent office recognizes today December 1, 1885 as the official day Dr Pepper was served in Wac...