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1890s Cycle Companies and Cycling Ads
A history blog tour of 1890s bicycle advertisements, from art nouveau posters to quirky magazine ads, with notes on the…
A Darkly Mysterious Instrument
A post from the Historical Photographs of China project following Victorian photographer John Thomson through China, and…
A Deadly Internship
A point-and-click whodunit in Victorian England starring Death's unpaid intern as he tries to solve a murder. Plays inst…
Bridehall
Text-based Victorian Gothic interactive fiction where you play the youngest child of the Simonson family, born of a scan…
Diatom Arrangements
A look at the Victorian craft of arranging microscopic glass-shelled algae into tiny patterns and pictures under a micro…
Don't Cook That
Hundreds of real recipes printed in earnest in cookbooks between 1831 and 1929 that you should never make, from peacock…
Erewhon: The Book of the Machines
Samuel Butler's 1872 chapter imagining machines evolving past humanity, a startlingly prescient essay on technology and…
History of Phrenology on the Web
A scholarly yet browsable archive on phrenology with an overview, organs of the brain, original texts, images, individua…
Language of Flowers
A Biodiversity Heritage Library post on the 19th-century language of flowers craze, when floral dictionaries gave women…
Luce's Journey
A Victorian-era trading and survival game in which you play a match seller trying to make it through the cold, playable…
Milner's Descriptive Atlas, 1850
Full scans of every plate from Thomas Milner's 1850 Descriptive Atlas, from moon maps and star charts to rivers, mountai…
Mothkeeper
A cozy game set in an old Victorian house where you grow herbs in your conservatory to feed and raise a nursery of color…
Never Never
A small project hub for an academic-style encyclopaedia of floriography, the Victorian language of flowers, with links t…
Sanborn Fire Maps
A free digital archive of more than 3,500 title pages from Sanborn fire insurance maps, showcasing ornate Victorian-era…
The Riddle of the Embankment Sphinx
A London history blogger spends a few unproductive hours trying to track down the Victorian foundry behind the bronze sp…
Thomas Morris - Medical Curiosities
Historian Thomas Morris digs up bizarre and fascinating cases from old medical journals, from surprising ailments to Vic…
Vintage: World's First Fitness Machines (1892)
Black and white photographs of Dr Gustaf Zander's 1890s mechanical exercise machines, the strange wooden and iron ancest…
Wondermark
David Malki's comic assembled from collaged nineteenth-century engravings, pairing Victorian illustrations with absurd m…
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