costumes
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Victorian Hoax Photography Collection #3 (Martian Edition Part #1)
Today’s collection has to be one of the most bozarre and hilarious we’ve archived thus far. Yet when these images began to circulate in a national newspaper in 1895, Victorians were queueing up to be fooled. In 1895 a theatre company named Barnard & Co. was celebrating the end to a fantastic summer season in…
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Victorian Art House Cinema Stills Collection #2
We would first like to thank our restoration team for doing an outstanding job salvaging the reels we have recently received. Your work is vital to the continued success of this project. These stills come from a 4 hour-long silent movie based on Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground. Like all arthouse cinema produced in London back…
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Theatre of the Dancing Witches Collection #1
Polite society during the Victorian era was wafer thin. When we begin to dig a little deeper, we find the same appetites and vices as we have today. And why wouldn’t we? Nothing really separates our own inner workings from men and women who lived 130 years ago. In 1859 a members only ‘theatre’ sprang…
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Photographs of Interesting Victorians Collection #4
Sometimes it’s useful to provide additional information for a photograph and sometimes it’s better to let them speak for themselves and allow the audience to fill in the blanks. Today we will allow you to blankety blank. Have a splendid Monday. TVUP
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The Festival of Grime Collection #3
This is the last collection of the Festival of Grime photographs for a while as we have been cleaning up some images we can’t wait to share with the world. No background information necessary. We hope you enjoy them as much as we do. Have a splendid day. TVUP
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The Festival of Grime Collection #2
Some more delightful images from the Festival of Grime for you. The costumes of the moth children in photograph #4 and the stick insect in photograph #7 are my personal favourites. However, the carnival float of an Indian elephant in photograph #8 is also impressive. Such a rig would have taken many hours of hard…
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The Importance of Cards During the Victorian Era Collection #5
You may recall from Collection #3 that a collector named Mr Martin had donated some Victorian ritual magic cards to the Fellowship. They tend to depict sealife, land mammals, birds and insects. They were used to ‘take control’ of the elements. Yesterday Mr Martin contacted us again. He has kindly donated a photograph of his…
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The Bromley Society of Animal Lovers Collection #2
Today’s collection is an assortment of miscellaneous photographs. We have no names, no context, no backstory; only imagination. We’re almost certain that some of them are early examples of ‘photoshopping” and trust that our friends can also spot the culprits a mile off. For us at the Fellowship, these attempts at doctoring images only multiplies…
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A Murder of Scarecrows Collection #1
Between 1869 and 1875 there was such a profession as a human scarecrow. Because the bird population had temporarily increased owed to industrial displacement, farmers and other landowners experimented with tougher security measures. The idea was to employ poor people to march around their land wearing terrifying costumes, hoping this would deter what one farmer…
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