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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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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 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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Victorian Fancy Dress Collection #1
With the coronation weekend upon us, we thought it was the perfect time to look at some Victorian fancy dress costumes. These images were taken on Halloween night in 1877. No background stories today. Have a pompous weekend everyone. TVUP
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Victorian Parents Using Their Children for Pranks Collection #1
As the weekend lands, we decided to share some sinister family photographs of Victorian children which made their way into our archives many years ago. The collector who kindly donated them told us that the photographs were taken around the Black Country circa the 1880s. We have managed to clean them up, but the various…
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Photographs of Interesting Victorians Collection #2
Today we bring you some more photographs of interesting Victorians straight from our archives. Unfortunately we have virtually no background information for photograph #2, #3, #4 and #7. However, we do believe the person in photograph #1 is likely to be Lady Malcolm Barlow of Ulverston. She was named after her father which was an…
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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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The Gentlemen’s Moth Appreciation Society of England Collection #1
The Gentlemen’s Moth Appreciation Society of England was founded in 1768. It was the governing body of all 57 registered moth societies across the country until its abrupt disbanding in 1900. This society converged around a shared, often lifelong love of the moth. While many of us are terrified by the mere mention of this…
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