ornaments
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A Day Out at Monkey Manor Collection #2
The above images depict some of the artwork, statues and ornaments which can be found in Monkey Manor. We have no idea how Ms Telford obtained these. It’s entirely possible that they are her creations. Photograph #1 might look cute, but it isn’t depicting a special bond between primate and human; rather it’s depicting a…
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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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Skink Magazine: The Victorian BDSM Catalogue Collection #5
We have seen the Victorian obsession with death before in other collections. It’s not difficult to understand why it existed. Medical science was still at a stage where the routine illnesses of today could have been certain death 130 years ago. The child mortality rate was abysmal and the life expectancy in England for a…
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Skink Magazine: The Victorian BDSM Catalogue Collection #4
These photographs were taken last year by a private collector of Victorian ‘love maids’. We are thankful to them for allowing us to archive the images here. These dolls were referenced in the classified section of Skink. They asked people to write to the Southern Exchange (abbreviated to SEX) for more information. It is a…
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The Siblings of Saint Rupert Collection #4
Today we have curated a nice slab of the Victorian Gothic. We now know that the Siblings of Saint Rupert spread from the south of England to the north. It was written on the back of image #8: “As we embrace Saint Rupert and spread His darkness across the land, more and more children flock…
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The Siblings of Saint Rupert Collection #3
It seems like we can’t get further than a week before someone asks us to share more images of the Siblings. It’d be mildly annoying if we didn’t share your enthusiasm. We thought it’d be interesting to display some new aspects of this cult and invite anyone who has useful information that we’re missing to…
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The Strange World of Victorian Taxidermy Collection #1
Today we bring to you the first collection of Victorian taxidermy which was kindly photographed and sent to us by a collector. Taxidermy was accessible to anyone who could find an unwilling subject. Oftentimes poorer Victorians would hunt or steal animals and then turn them into strange objects. They would then be sold or kept…
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The Siblings of Saint Rupert Collection #2
A few people have contacted us since we published our first Siblings collection, asking us for more images of this obscure secret society/ cult. We are only too happy to oblige. The Siblings are a fascinating Victorian subject and we just and so happen to have reams of photographs at our disposal. Today we are…
Welcome to the Victorian Underground Project 