Absolute History: Victorian Christmas
three installments of Christmas at the Victorian Farm
The Great Stink: everything you wanted to know
Why, in the 1850s, was the excrement of thousands of people being deposited straight into the Thames? How lethal were Victorian London's cholera outbreaks? And why is Joseph Bazalgette one…
Poison and Poisonability
When we think of serial killers, we tend to think of men—Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Jack the Ripper. But in the 1800s, the deadliest killers often wore corsets. In fact,…
Written in the Waters
Tara Roberts
Carnival Collection
Tulane university library catalog
Black Watermen of the Chesapeake
Mid-nineteenth century Maryland offered pseudo-freedom to African Americans who lived and worked on the water.
Little Ice Age
Professor Suzannah Lipscomb discusses the impact of the Little Ice Age, a period of significant cooling from the 15th to early 19th centuries that caused widespread famine, drought, and socio-economic…
Nosferatu (2024 film)
Nosferatu is a 2024 American Gothic horror film written and directed by Robert Eggers. It is a remake of the film Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922), itself an unauthorized…
The riddles of Heinrich Hermann Mebes
Five notebooks delicately bound, filled with drawings, words, allegories emblems, precise yet disordered
Frankenstein inspired by suicide of Mary Shelley’s half-sister, book reveals
The twin tragedies alter the understanding of the themes of Frankenstein. It is often read as a warning about the perils of science, but as the daughter of Wollstonecraft, England’s…