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  1. Eat tapeworm eggs, lose weight: The terrifying Victorian practice whose myth refuses to die.

    Women have long gone to extreme lengths to fit into their era’s beauty canon — let’s examine the truths and lies behind the supposed Ozempic of the Victorian era.

    mediafaro.org/article/20260404

    #Beauty #Tapeworm #Health #Weightloss #Women #Victorians #History

  2. So much #OldSchoolTech in these shows!

    #VictorianFarm - Christmas Special
    2009 · 1 Season

    TV-PG
    Documentary

    "Discover in depth how the #Victorians created the celebration of #Christmas as we know it today."

    tubitv.com/series/246/victoria

    #OldWays #Histodon

  3. 📗 Luís Mendonça de Carvalho edited the book ‘The Victorians: A Botanical Perspective. Volume 1’ (Springer), which provides us with a 'unique re-evaluation of the Victorian Age and presents a new historiography based on plants'.

    👉 link.springer.com/book/10.1007

    @histodons
    @histodon
    @botany

    #Histodons #Botany #Plants #Historiography #Victorians #VictorianEra #VictorianBotany #EconomicBotany #Ethnobotany #HistoryOfPlants #SocialHistory #HistoryOfScience #SciHist

  4. Book # 2 of our thematic week:
    Jillian M. Hess's study "How #Romantics and #Victorians Organized Information" examines #commonplace books, scrapbooks & albums as mediums of organizing knowledge & people, too!

    #VictorianCulture #Romanticism #CulturalStudies #MaterialCulture

  5. Yesterday, day 2 of the #VictorianDarknesses conference in Vechta saw Pamela K Gilbert's keynote on self-destructive #Victorians, many intriguing talks & a trip to Bremen incl an amusing tour w a "historical" nightwatchman - very fitting to the darkness theme!

    #VictorianStudies

  6. Decadent Women Yellow Book Lives is now available at a pre-publication price in the US tinyurl.com/mr7m2t2c use promo code UCPNEW for 30% reduction. Official publication date is December 20 @UChicagoPress. #DecadentWomen #Victorian #Victorians #womenswriting #1890s

  7. “The Devil’s Acre”, in Westminster, was one of the worst slums in Victorian Britain. Despite the slum being cleared long ago, the name persists due to the number of Tory MPs who reside there.

    #UK #London #Westminster #Victorians #VictorianSlums #slum #wealth #poverty #inequality #politicians #Tories #QI #notQI

  8. Very pleased to have put the final touches on 'Beyond the Enlightenment: Scottish Intellectual Life, 1790-1914' (edited by me and Colin Kidd, due #EdinburghUP in May)!

    It explores how #Scottish intellectual culture shifted from the #Enlightenment to the #Victorians.

    Starting a project just as covid hit wasn't ideal, so many thanks to our talented team of postdocs and all our contributors (and #LeverhulmeTrust and #StAndrewsHistory for support)

    edinburghuniversitypress.com/b

    #histodons #victodons