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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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Dada Before Dada in Victorian Soho, London Collection #2
In the last post we mentioned the Inhumanists Manifesto; a fascinating read for anyone interested in the avant-garde. One can’t help but notice the stark contrast between the tone of the manifesto and the perceived stuffiness of the Victorian era. As we can see from the art itself, profanity is scattered everywhere and used almost…
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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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Godbert Lawley and the Original Victorian B-movie Collection #4
We return to the fascinating universe of Godbert Lawley’s B-movies. This time we have included stills from what we believe to be the first zombie movie ever made. It’s called The Workhouse Dead and it played for 6 consecutive years every Halloween to an audience of around fifty viewers in a tent. These viewers would…
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A Murder of Scarecrows Collection #3
As autumn grips us, winter is getting ready to pounce. Today we return to this frosty collection purely because every time we look at those bleak English landscapes, we’re grateful to have somewhere warm to stay. The background story can be found in earlier collections should you wish to read them. Many thanks, TVUP
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The Siblings of Saint Rupert Collection #5
Today we revisit the Siblings of Saint Rupert. We have a mixture of photographs depicting different ranks as well as some focusing on altars and ritual artefacts. You may recall that we have begun to archive these in earlier collections if you wish to seek them out. Our researchers have discovered that one of the…
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Happy Halloween 2023!
‘May the night be long and frightful, may the trick or treaters be rude and spiteful, Let the lanterns burn big and bright long into the dead of night, See the ghouls be very cruel and the monsters carry some heavy tools, They fill the children up with dread and use those tools to bash…
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Floating Heads Cabaret Collection #2
Today we bring to you more photographs from the west end of London circa 1880 to 1900. As previously mentioned, this club was a hotbed for the advent of European bohemians and creatives. It is recorded that the likes of Squire Bancroft, Ivan Berlyn and John Clayton visited there alongside the highly regarded double act…
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Floating Heads Cabaret Collection #1
These beautiful photographs were taken in a small nocturnal cabaret club in the West End of London circa 1880. This little known style of theatre and dance spread across the European underground for approximately twenty years before disappearing with little trace. The 1880s was an interesting time to be alive. As we’ve noted before, society…
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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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