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Skink Magazine: The Victorian BDSM Catalogue Collection #6
And so we return to some gimp masks courtesy of everyone’s favourite BDSM Catalogue Skink! On a more serious note, as 2023 yawns its last wheezy breath we would like to thank all of our members, friends, staff, collaborators, donors, followers, likers, sharers, supporters, blog readers (especially our blog readers–you guys rock!), those who’ve been…
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The Festival of Grime Collection #5
Another collection of pre-carnival floats. Notice how, alongside various insects, they also celebrated the pig. At risk of sounding condescending to our dear readers, it is no coincidence that they also chose a pig to represent their struggle for survival in an age when making it past the age of five was a miracle. At…
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The Festival of Grime Collection #4
We return to the festival which celebrates northern pride, grit and determination. This time we are archiving photographs of the carnival floats which took a huge amount of time to construct and involved numerous people in the communities coming together. These photographs were taken in and around the Lancashire towns circa 1880 several days before…
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Victorian Parents Using Their Children for Pranks Collection #2
Among the huge amount of photographs we have received this month, we have been lucky enough to find another rare example of Victorian parents using their children for pranks. This time the subject was toddlers. Our expert in this particular area tells us that back in the early to mid-nineteenth century, families tended to be…
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Miscellaneous Christmas Photographs Collection (Festive Decorations Edition) #1
Since archiving some of our Christmas photographs, we have been inundated by our readers sending their own Victorian era photographs. They don’t quite fit into any existing series, but we have verified some of them and we agree that they are worthy of inclusion. So for consistency we have clumped them together in a miscellaneous…
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Dada Before Dada in Victorian Soho, London Collection #1
We’re thoroughly ashamed to have taken so long to digitally archive this art movement. Our research shows that this unconventional collective was a precursor to Dadaism. Its name was Inhumanism with a manifesto to boot. This collective was also born in Soho, London. The same place would see a postwar boom in bohemian art, theatre…
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The Gangs of Manchester: Rusholme Rascals Collection #2
The Rusholme Rascals, while not the biggest organisation in terms of numbers, were a particularly violent gang. There was an unwritten code in the criminal underworld that assaulting businesses was fair game. However, regular Joes and Janes should never be targeted. The Rascals were the only gang in Manchester we can find who broke this…
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The Gothic Artwork of Vincent Pugh Collection #5
This is the last Pugh collection for a short while. We have many more paintings to archive in the future which exemplify different phases of Pugh’s life including apocalyptic visions, self portraits and his final dissent into madness. Have a fantastic weekend and we’ll be back with more fascinating images soon. TVUP
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The Gothic Artwork of Vincent Pugh Collection #4
Today we continue to archive the works of Mr Pugh; the relatively unknown old romanticist who produced hundreds of beautiful yet haunting paintings along with a huge bank of photographs for his own reference. During his lifetime, he was on the radar of art collectors and sellers. However, his reclusive nature put him at odds…
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The Gothic Artwork of Vincent Pugh Collection #3
Death was something of a preoccupation for those struggling through the Victorian era. Death was everywhere and there was little defence against it. Not even all the tea in China could afford you some respite. Death, like today, doesn’t discriminate. As we have seen in this blog, the Victorians had a very strange relationship with…
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