#19th-century — Public Fediverse posts

Mary Shelley’s Hidden Scotland
13 December, Edinburgh – £18.60

The time Mary Shelley spent as a girl in Scotland – an “eyry of freedom” – helped shape her writing, in FRANKENSTEIN as well as in her less widely-known THE FORTUNES OF PERKIN WARBECK and THE LAST MAN. Dr Emily Alder explores the influence of Scotland on Shelley & her fiction.

https://www.tickettailor.com/events/pintsofknowledgeedinburgh/2458119

#Scottish #literature #Scotland #MaryShelley #Frankenstein #gothic #romanticism #18thcentury #19thcentury

What did the enlisted men of the Kaiser's army drink in the field? 1887 recipes, you may be surprised.
(coffee, tea, cocoa, lemonade, beer, grog, and mulled drinks. Not doing clickbait)

https://www.culina-vetus.de/2026/10/10/imperial-german-military-beverages/

#foodhistory #19thcentury #militaryhistory

“𝘔𝘺 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘴 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘰𝘰𝘭𝘮𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘴 is […] a rare and remarkably insightful book. It is a book in which boyhood is examined and displayed with all the attention Miller devoted to his geological specimens”

—David Alston: Hugh Miller & the Crucible of Childhood

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https://www.thebottleimp.org.uk/2023/07/hugh-miller-1802-1856-and-the-crucible-of-childhood/

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #HughMiller #workingclass #workingclasswriters #education #childhood

…the tar which used to boil in it to the heat, like resin in a fagot of moss-fir, was as strange a mixture as ever yet bubbled in witches’ caldron—blood of pterodactyle & grease of ichthyosaur…

—Hugh Miller, MY SCHOOLS & SCHOOLMASTERS (1854) – also on @gutenberg_org

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https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/30737

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #HughMiller #geology #historyofgeology #workingclass #workingclasswriters #fossils

I picked up a nodular mass of blue limestone, and laid it open by a stroke of the hammer. Wonderful to relate, it contained inside a beautifully finished piece of sculpture…

—Hugh Miller, THE OLD RED SANDSTONE (1841)
available as a free ebook on @gutenberg_org

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https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/63923

#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #HughMiller #geology #historyofgeology #workingclass #workingclasswriters #fossils

Fossil hunter, folklorist, evangelist, stonemason, editor, social justice campaigner, & geologist, Hugh Miller (1802–1856) – born #OTD, 10 Oct – should be remembered in the company of Carlyle, Ruskin, Matthew Arnold & JS Mill as one of the leading moral & social thinkers of the 19th centuries

A 🎂🧵

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#Scottish #literature #Victorian #19thcentury #HughMiller #geology #historyofgeology #workingclass #workingclasswriters

Philosopher Charles Fourier died #OnThisDay in 1837

The belief that you are what you eat emerged in #19thcentury France, where the pleasures of the table were sautéed with philosophy and medicine.

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Walter Scott country

Currently on BBC Sounds: Martha Kearney looks at how Walter Scott’s writing explored Scotland’s environmental history, & how he incorporated ecological themes in his novels, using landscapes as active components of storytelling.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00325d6

#Scottish #literature #18thcentury #19thcentury #romanticism #WalterScott #SirWalterScott #ecology #environment #environmentalism #Scotland

#1417 Alan Bennett - Cornwall Through the Mid Nineteenth Century. Kingfisher Railway Publications, Southampton, 1987, 1st edition.

#AlanBennett #KingfisherRailwayPublications #Cornwall #19thCentury #LocalHistory #BookOfTheDay

The Dominie is growin’ grey,
And, feth, he’s keepit thrang
Wi’ counts an’ spellin’ a’ the day,
And liffies when they’re wrang…

—“The Dominie’s Happy Lot”, by poet & schoolmaster Walter Wingate (1865–1918)

Times may have changed, but happy World Teachers’ Day – 5 October – to all who celebrate!

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https://www.unesco.org/en/days/teachers

#Scottish #literature #teachers #teaching #WorldTeachersDay #poem #poetry #19thcentury #Victorian #Scots #Scotslanguage

“This is the biography of an extraordinary family, an impossible sea & an engineering miracle”

Bella Bathurst’s THE LIGHTHOUSE STEVENSONS tells the story of Robert Louis Stevenson’s ancestors – four generations who designed & built the great lights around Scotland

https://bellabathurst.com/books/the-lighthouse-stevensons/

#Scottish #history #19thcentury #Victorian #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

Say not of me that weakly I declined
The labours of my sires, and fled the sea,
The towers we founded and the lamps we lit…

—Robert Louis Stevenson’s apologia for deserting the family trade of lighthouse-building & taking up the pen, instead

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson #poem #poetry

“I have often thought that to find a family to compare with ours in the promise of immortal memory, we must go back to the Egyptian Pharaohs…”

—From RLS’s MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF (privately published, Philadelphia 1912) – online via the Hathi Trust

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t7mp5z00p&view=1up&seq=9

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

“When the lights come out at sundown along the shores of Scotland, I am proud to think they burn more brightly for the genius of my father”
—Robert Louis Stevenson, MEMOIRS OF HIMSELF

Thomas Stevenson (1818–1887), lighthouse engineer & Robert Louis Stevenson’s father

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson

Keepers of the Light
Currently on BBC Sounds

For generations, the Stevenson family built lighthouses around Scotland’s coast. Robert Louis Stevenson was expected to do the same – but instead, he chose to write. Keepers of the Light explores the uneasy boundary between art & engineering, & how one extraordinary family shared an impulse to create in very different forms.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0031py0

#Scottish #literature #19thcentury #Victorian #art #engineering #lighthouse #RobertLouisStevenson