Jewelry of jet was the haute jewelry of the Victorian era.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/17/style/jet...index.html

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In the 1800s, turtle meat was a protein most often associated with upper-class dining. Preparation for turtle and terrapin was labor intensive — Maude C. Cook’s 1887 cookbook Three Meals a Day contains directions for the laborious process, which required removing the shell. In part because of the difficult preparation, turtle was rarely eaten at home; the meat was most commonly served in a banquet setting

  

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In doing light research for a Pip post:
Did you know Oxford English Dictionary's earliest evidence for pea-shooting is from 1857, in the writing of Thomas Hughes, social reformer and children's writer?

  

Braces (or suspenders) were almost universally worn due to the high cut of men's trousers that made belts impractical. Belts did not become common until the 1920s, after men had become accustomed to military uniform in WWI.

I just saw this tumblr post and MORE SUSPENDER LOVE IN POSTS PLZ THEY'RE SEXY

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Apparently in the 1800s a way to treat diagnosed hysteria was to cut of the clitoris called a clitoradectimy (sp?). O.O

-It's Not Hysteria by Karen Tang, MD, MPH

  

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Apparently in the 1800s a way to treat diagnosed hysteria was to cut of the clitoris called a cliteratimy (sp?). O.O

-It's Not Hysteria by Karen Tang, MD, MPH

A CHARMING DID YOU KNOW - Ursula Black had one in character on the old board and then Olive retconned it out because we all agreed that was three steps too far for a fantasy roleplay xD And also ew.

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One of the cheapest homeless shelters in Victorian London charged just 4 pennies to sleep in a coffin. Yes, a coffin, which was novel in that one could actually sleep on their backs instead of upright against a rope or similarly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_penny_coffin

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Writer Notes: Charley is a street urchin in both appearance and behavior, unless written otherwise here.
Interactions may reflect Victorian-era morals rather than modern sensibilities; this is allowed and acceptable to this writer.

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Women's downstairs underwear was crotchless in this era. There were apparently some versions that had a crotch but they were considered unsanitary and unfashionable. not making this up.

  

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"The[dance] cards themselves could be simple pieces of paper or more elaborate creations worked into a woman's costume for the evening. Museu da Moda Brasileira noted examples of illustrations, musical instrument shapes, or converting one's fan into a dance card. Curiously, [Emily] Post reports with some displeasure that dance cards were popular for public balls, but not private ones."

From: https://www.grunge.com/1079656/what-a-vi...ally-like/

  

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Okay so a lot of my interest in making Diligent here after a historically terrible track record with WC characters came from all the things I learned on my Jack the Ripper walking tour. Some of them:

-- many WC Londoners would sleep in a "doss house" which rented by the night and had 3 levels of accommodation.
-- Most expensive were 4p "coffin beds"; the room was packed tight with wooden boxes and one of them was for you.
-- For 2p you could get the next tier which involved leaning against a wall with a big group and having the keeper run a rope around you. You were expected to fall asleep leaning against the wall and the rope would keep you from falling. The term "hungover" probably originates from people showing up drunk to the dosshouse and being hung over the line by morning because they fell over. (Picture!)
-- for 1p you were just admitted to the room and expected to sit in pews/on the floor/in a pile of other people and sleep that way

-- prostitutes were not permitted to loiter or to solicit men, they had to keep moving and be approached by their potential customer. This lead to certain areas becoming known spots for prostitutes to "circle" so men could find them; a church known (unofficially) as Prostitutes Church reportedly sometimes had up to 100 women trudging a slow circle around it waiting for clients
-- after a big push to close brothels (believing this would somehow cure the city of prostitution) many women were relying on doss houses for nightly accommodations and didn't have a place to "conduct business" so would just take their customers into any dark alley

-- men who worked unskilled labor such as working at the docks typically didn't have stable employment, but rather showed up each morning hoping to get a "work ticket".
-- on any given day the number of work tickets might be smaller than the number of men looking for work - say 300 men showed up but there's only 100 tickets from the dockmaster that day - which often resulted in open brawls in the street where the last men standing would get to work

Also this isn't really a fun fact as such but half the people discussed in the tour were like "Named A, or B, and also went by C and D, but when she was arrested earlier that night gave her name as E" because listen who the fuck cares about your name when you're poor and there's no paperwork trail anywhere? And I nabbed that for Diligent <3

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H. G. Wells' post-apocalyptic sci-fi novella The Time Machine was published this year in 1895!

...about a Victorian scientist known as the Time Traveller who travels to the year 802,701. The work is generally credited with the popularization of the concept of time travel by using a vehicle or device to travel purposely and selectively forward or backward through time.

A work of future history and speculative evolution, The Time Machine is interpreted in modern times as a commentary on the increasing inequality and class divisions of Wells's era, which he projects as giving rise to two separate human species: the fair, childlike Eloi, and the savage, simian Morlocks, distant descendants of the contemporary upper and lower classes respectively.

yes, yes he was a socialist

(and/or some wizarding author could have written a magical equivalent called "The Time Turner" with some post-apocalyptic envisioning of the distant future and collapse of wizarding society, lol)

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Okay another thing I remembered from the tour but unfortunately can't find a source so grain of salt I suppose- nevermind, got the right combination of key words- source!

Due to recent volcanic activity the aurora borealis was much more visible in England in this era, but combined with the pollution in London and constantly smoggy sky the effect was that the sky sometimes had an insistinct, eerie green glow.

  

The phrase "purple prose" to describe unnecessarily convoluted writing trying to look/sound pretty dates from 65 BC. Roman poet Horace in Ars Poetica wrote:

Weighty openings and grand declarations often
Have one or two purple patches tacked on

So it's era-appropriate literary criticism!

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MJ made this <3

For all my florists:

Roses are almost always required for a Victorian flower arrangement as they were very popular during the era. Other appropriate flowers are tulips, carnations, daisies, China asters, lilies, cockscomb, peonies, bleeding hearts, freesias, dahlias and baby’s breath.

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Bee made this beauty<3

In 1895, pesticides were already an integral part of agricultural practices, driven by the need to combat various pests that threatened crops and food supplies.

• Arsenicals: Compounds containing arsenic were widely used as insecticides in the late 19th century. Paris Green, for example, was employed against the Colorado Potato Beetle, according to whitehorsepress.blog.
  
• Lead Arsenate: Introduced for insect control in 1892, it quickly gained popularity due to its effectiveness and relative safety for plants compared to Paris Green. It became the pesticide of choice for orchard trees, according to The Garden History Blog.
  
• Bordeaux Mixture: This accidental discovery in the late 19th century proved effective against downy mildew, a destructive fungal disease of grapevines. It consists of lime and copper sulfate.
  
• Sulfur: Sulfur compounds were used as both fungicides and insecticides.
  
• Botanical insecticides: Plant extracts like pyrethrum and derris were also used.
  

(We're all about to learn a lot about plants and uses in the Victorian Era...)

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I’m sure many of us have written life cream cones already, but in a few months, I hope you’re ready for Ritchie to formally introduce the ice cream cone ?

The first ice cream cone was produced in 1896 by Italo Marchiony. Marchiony, who emigrated from Italy in the late 1800s, invented his ice cream cone in New York City.

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Bee made the lovely grey set<3