#victorians — Public Fediverse posts

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.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260404-eat-tapeworm-eggs-lose-weight-the-terrifying-victorian-practice-whose-myth-refuses-to-die?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

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

@FotoVorschlag 'Verkleidet (an Karneval)' Whitby Goth Festival
#altText #alternativeCulture #amateurPhotography #corsetry #creativeExpression #cyberGoth #fotoVorschlag #gothicFashion #iconicFestival #mastodonPhotography #myPhoto #myWork #noAI #no2AI #northYorkshire #oc #photography #pixelfed #purpleHair #redDreadlocks #steampunk #streetPhotography #topHat #uk #victorianS #whitbyGothFestival @photography

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."

https://tubitv.com/series/246/victorian-farm-christmas-special

#OldWays #Histodon

📗 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'.

👉 https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-68759-4

@histodons
@histodon
@botany

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

#TransgenderVictoria Launches An Incredible #Trans #Month 2024 Program

#Victorians of all #sexualities and #genderidentities are invited to #join in #celebrating the #strength, #joy, and #diversity of our #transgender, #genderdiverse and #nonbinary #communities.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Australia #Pride #Representation #Culture

https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/transgender-victoria-trans-month-2024-program/232940

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

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

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

“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

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)

https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-beyond-the-enlightenment.html

#histodons #victodons

So for #FollowFriday here are groups of things I'm interested in. I'd love to follow you if you are into them too 😊

#antiqueJewellery #TheGeorgians #Victorians #ArtDeco #ArtNouveau #Paste #History #ConservationOfCulturalHeritage #MetalConservation #Museums #Curating #HistoricBuildings #18thCentury #Regency #JaneAusten #Napoleon #FrenchRevolution #FashionHistory

#Politics #Art #Dogs #Cats #Brighton #NewZealand #1980's #Architecture #Activism #TheLeft #News #Music

...and most other things 😂

So here are some hashtags: #Wellness #Rhetoric #Medicine #Writing #Gothic #Victorians #HealthCommunication #HealthWriting #TechnicalWriting #ProfessionalWriting #Spirituality

Outside of academia, I talk a lot about #triathlon and #running, #horror movies and books, and #LatinDancing, #philadelphia, and the #ClevelandGuardians. Friends have described me as a “cheerful goth.”