How Valentine’s Day was transformed by the Industrial Revolution and ‘manufactured intimacy’
Valentine's Day evolved from handmade tokens to mass-produced cards during the Industrial Revolution, creating "manufactured ...
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7 Best Manga Set In The Victorian Era, Ranked
Overall, the show has become and iconic symbol of Victorian-era manga and demonstrates many of the best qualities of the setting. Set in a fictional version of 19th century Europe, Gunka no ...
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Victorian Christmas - History of Christmas
It's hard to imagine now, but at the beginning of the 19th century Christmas was hardly ... by small gifts and paper hats in the late Victorian period, and remain in this form as an essential ...
A Valentine mystery to be solved. Duxbury's Tony Kelso on the case. Who wooed Emma Drew?
Vintage Valentines in Duxbury's archives express love and longing in the 19th century. They also hold tantalizing clues for ...
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Bare knuckles, hard liquor and Victorian hipsters: how ‘A Thousand Blows’ made 19th century London cool
A Thousand Blows centres on Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby) and Alec Munroe (Francis Lovehall), best friends from Jamaica, who arrive in 1880s London and find themselves thrust into the bare-knuckle ...
Back in time for 19th century grub at Blists Hill Victorian Town
Love will soon be in the air with Valentine’s Day, and as the old saying goes, the way to many of our hearts is through our ...
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8 amazing facts about the history of Christmas
The tradition of Christmas gift-giving seriously took off during the Victorian era. Whereas before presents were the preserve of the privileged, in the 19th century, everyone got in on the act.
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A fashion designer, Italian singer and Icelandic illustrator team up on Vatican exhibition
The exhibition, titled “En Route,” is the sixth in a series of events intended as a dialogue between the Vatican library’s heritage, dating to the 4th century ... the late 19th and early 20th ...