midjourney
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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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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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Victorian Haute Cuisine Collection #1
Today we take a look at Victorian fine dining. Photograph #1 is of the head chef, Mick Rathbone. Mr Rathbone (who slapped anyone saying French words in his kitchen including French people) worked at The Pig’s Ear in Kensington. He served a different set meal every night using the rarest ingredients available at the time.…
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The Victorian Punk Band Collection #1
While most people believe that punk rock began with The Sex Pistols, The Ramones or even T Rex for that matter, the earliest example we can find is The Rag N’ Bone Men formed in the north east of England in the 1880s. This band was regularly met with street protests as they travelled around…
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Cosmetic Surgery in the Victorian Era Collection #1
While cosmetic surgery was in its infancy during the Victorian era, back alley cosmetic surgery was about to wheeze its dying breath. Fortunately we have extensive documentation of this little known practice in our archives. This particular collection requires minor explanation. Photograph #1 is of Ms Mavis Barker of York who performed operations on a…
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Easter Celebrations at the Victorian Underground
At the Victorian Underground Project, we try to provide as much background information on our archival documents as we can. However, today we have requested an Easter holiday. If you look closely you will be able to see that we haven’t cleaned up the first three photographs purely because we believe they look better in…
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The Victorian Slop House Collection #1
This is the first in a series of images that celebrate the infamous Victorian slop house. These shoestring eateries were so hideous that they are rarely featured in the newspapers of the day except for mentioning mass outbreaks of food poisoning. Only the seriously hungry would dare to visit these places, unaware that they were…
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