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Irish Wanderer
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OLD PICTURES OF DUBLIN - PHOTOS OF IRELAND
While going through the web this afternoon I found a nice collection of old photos of Dublin on a webshots album. I also found...
 
Susan K
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Lamy of Santa Fe by Paul Horgan
1976 Pulitzer Prize for History.It caught my eye this past July while I was in Santa Fe. Fascinating window into the difficult...
 
basje
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More Victorian Gossip
If you’ve read Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park you know how powerful the gossip column in newspapers could be in the...
2 days ago 19th century | Topics: 19th century
 
basje
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Butchery on Bond Street
On my Christmas wishlist: Butchery on Bond Street, Sexual Politics & The Burdell-Cunningham Case In Ante-Bellum New York,...
2 days ago 19th century | Topics: 19th century
 
Deborah Elizabeth Finn
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@ibrow Jane Austen is one of the great ethicists, as well as literary stylists, of 19th century Britain.
 
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Michael Crichton: The Great Train Robbery - Der große Eisenbahnraub
Nein, es war keine Sache des Timings, dass ich ausgerechnet jetzt Michael Crichtons "Der große Eisenbahnraub" gelesen habe. Vergangene Woche, am 4. November 2008, ist der Bestseller Autor im Alter von 65 Jahren an einem Krebsleiden verstorben....
 
basje
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Paris Gossip
The summer races have opened with the victory of an English horse, Ceylon, belonging to the Duke of Beaufort, much to the...
9 days ago 19th century | Topics: 19th century
 
basje
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Condensed reading & Heart of Darkness
You know how, while fun, Victorian books can be a little slow at times? Here you can read your favourite books, condensed to...
 
vacelts
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A 19th Century Autumn Harvest Festival
On Saturday, my family and I went to an Autumn Harvest Festival at Meadow Farm Park. Meadow Farm is a historical park centered...
 
basje
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Letters from a German Prince, pt. 2
Last week I told about the book I read, in which Prince Pückler-Muskau tells about his travels abroad. Here are some more bits...
 
<em>routoutcom</em>
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"Cow Poxed, Ox Faced Boy," 19th Century
I found this on a very nice website called “Medical Humanities Blog,” which appears to have sourced it from the...
33 days ago Routout | Topics: Offbeat, 19th Century, Blog, Cow Boy
 
basje
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Public Parks in the Nineteenth Century
While the making public of gardens in order to create people’s parks was something that first started in the eighteenth...
 
basje
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Caspar David Friedrich in Amsterdam
Wow, I totally forgot to post this here! There’s an exhibition with works of Caspar David Friedrich and other German...
44 days ago 19th century | Topics: 19th century
 
basje
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Fashioning the Bourgeoisie
A book I’m really fond of right now is Fashioning the Bourgeoisie:A History of Clothing in the Nineteenth Century by...
 
Eco Girl
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A Little Self Promotion Never Hurt
With that said…The Day After An Inconvenient Truth via e-mail, a gift from me to you.You’re Welcome....
 
basje
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Book review: Michael Cox’ The Glass of Time
I just finished reading The Glass of Time by author Michael Cox. I must say, I was very pleasantly surprised! Usually I’m...