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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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Victorian Insect Hatting Collection #1
For the people who have read some of the backstories of the Victorian Underground, you may recall us mentioning ‘insect hatting’. This was a variant of flower hatting, plant hatting and other types of ‘hatting’. These were small gatherings of gentlemen who would meet up once a week to share their love of hat making…
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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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The Gentlemen’s Moth Appreciation Society of England Collection #2
Today we share 5 more members of The Gentlemen’s Moth Appreciation Society of England who also tragically lost their lived on the turn of the 18th century. May they all rest in peace. TVUP
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The ‘Birds’ of Victorian England Collection #1
At the Fellowship of the Victorian Underground Project, we have looked at various subcultures and are set to explore many more in the coming months. This particular subculture we share with you today is one of the most interesting and beautiful in our archives, yet is largely absent from the history books. The women in…
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The Kafka Controversy
You may remember us mentioning ‘insect hatting’ in earlier posts; an unusual sport whereby gentlemen make a hat to the theme of insects. The makers then annually compete in a painstaking point scoring system to see who has the greatest hat. Today we aren’t concerned with insect hatting. Rather we want to share a somewhat…
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Photographs of Interesting Victorians Collection #1
These striking photographs were submitted to the project only recently and were received in almost immaculate condition. Unfortunately the collector didn’t have much additional information on the photographers, subjects or locations. Our own research suggests that photograph #1 is likely to be a portrait of Mavis Cragg. She is referenced several times in a doctor’s…
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