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Skink Magazine; The Victorian BDSM Catalogue Collection #3
Today we archive more of the photography found in the only Victorian kink magazine we are aware of. This time we wanted to show another theme running through the pages. We would like to say that this is where the Spiderman franchise got its superhero costume ideas from, but that would potentially land us in…
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Godbert Lawley and the Original Victorian B-movie Collection #3
We’re keeping things short and sweet today. Here are some more stills from the movies of Godbert Lawley. Our research suggests that many of the actors, sets, stories and props were recycled. However, they were reworked to such a degree that a casual viewer would never detect it. We believe that the images in this…
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Skink Magazine; The Victorian BDSM Catalogue Collection #2
As you can see from this collection, the craftsmanship that went into the masks and costumes is second to none. It’s almost as if they were wasted given that they were essentially used as private bedroom props. Disclaimer: you may be unsurprised to learn that none of the staff at TVUP are versed in BDSM…
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Godbert Lawley and the Original Victorian B-movie Collection #2
An interesting fact about Godbert’s movies is that the overwhelming majority of the staff were not only alcoholics, but were largely drunk on set. According to one interview, he said that the reason for this is that alcoholics are not only cheaper (because they can be paid in alcohol), but they also make better stuntmen.…
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Skink Magazine; The Victorian BDSM Catalogue Collection #1
When we think about the Victorians, we tend to focus on the stuffy and inflexible norms we find among polite society. No foul language, no bad manners and certainly no kink. But dig only a few inches deeper and we find that this was only part of the story. Although often well hidden, there were…
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The Fat Wives’ Club
Historical attitudes towards portly people, particularly women, have ebbed and flowed over millennia. To a lesser degree, leaner people have also been a subject of derision. It’s almost impossible to find examples of societies where attitudes had made peace with weight diversity– including ours. During the latter half of the Victorian era, a school of…
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Godbert Lawley and the Original Victorian B-movie Collection #1
In a short period of time, Godbert made, or attempted to make, around 50 horror movies. These were funded by wealthy businessmen who predicted the silver screen boom. Each movie was around 3 minutes long and many of them were scrapped for reasons unknown. Fortunately some did survive and made their way to the underground…
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Birds of Paradise Collection
The Birds of Paradise was a gentlemen’s club of the traditional type based in Newcastle. It became a meeting place for lonely bachelors who came together to curse the world and drown their sorrows. One night a gentleman called Alfred Beach (photograph #10), who was very drunk at the time, began talking about how easy…
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A Murder of Scarecrows Collection #2
This is the second and final scarecrow collection for a while. Photograph #9 depicts one of the biggest working farms of the Victorian era. At the very peak of the bird epidemic, Melrose Farms employed forty people to trudge through wintery fields while dressed as scarecrows. On average, working in the scarecrow trade for Melrose…
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The Siblings of Saint Rupert Collection #4
Today we have curated a nice slab of the Victorian Gothic. We now know that the Siblings of Saint Rupert spread from the south of England to the north. It was written on the back of image #8: “As we embrace Saint Rupert and spread His darkness across the land, more and more children flock…
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