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5. Victorian Hair Jewellery
By Maggie Kalenak Either encased under glass in brooches, lockets and hair accessories or woven with wire to create three-dimensional ornaments and chains, the use of hair in sentimental jewellery was a fixture of British fashion from the 17th century through the end of the 19th, reaching its height in popularity between 1810 and 1850.…
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Helen Sunderland – Historian Highlight
In the first post in the series, Helen Sunderland explains her research looking into the history of schoolgirl politics in late Victorian and Edwardian England.
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Victorian Vegetarians: Nineteenth-Century Christmas Puddings (veggie edition)
By Fabia Buescher (fb586@cam.ac.uk) Christmas in the nineteenth-century was, as it is today, a time for celebrating, laughing and eating together. To such conviviality, a lavish Christmas dinner couldn’t go amiss. The Victorian Christmas tables were filled with mince pies, Christmas puddings and roasted meat, including turkey, beef and goose. Yet not everybody chose to…
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