The moral case for reparations rests not on accumulated grievances but on accumulated wealth, and that wealth not only passes down the generations, it also compounds (e.g. slavery profits reinvested in C19th domestic industry).
November 1, 2026 at 10:09 AM
The moral case for reparations rests not on accumulated grievances but on accumulated wealth, and that wealth not only passes down the generations, it also compounds (e.g. slavery profits reinvested in C19th domestic industry).
Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day
Today's fact is a C19th phrase commonly heard on the street.
Shut up your garret.
Meaning: Hold your tongue.
Today's fact is a C19th phrase commonly heard on the street.
Shut up your garret.
Meaning: Hold your tongue.
November 3, 2026 at 8:43 AM
Bow Street Society Trivia of the Day
Today's fact is a C19th phrase commonly heard on the street.
Shut up your garret.
Meaning: Hold your tongue.
Today's fact is a C19th phrase commonly heard on the street.
Shut up your garret.
Meaning: Hold your tongue.
Will O' The Wisp
'There in the calamus he stands
With frog webbed feet & bat winged hands
His glow worm garb glints goblin wise
& elfishly & impishly
Above the gleam of owlet eyes
A death head's cap of downy dyes
Nods out at me & beckons me...' (Madison Cawein/C19th engraving, artist unknown)
'There in the calamus he stands
With frog webbed feet & bat winged hands
His glow worm garb glints goblin wise
& elfishly & impishly
Above the gleam of owlet eyes
A death head's cap of downy dyes
Nods out at me & beckons me...' (Madison Cawein/C19th engraving, artist unknown)
October 31, 2026 at 12:08 AM
Will O' The Wisp
'There in the calamus he stands
With frog webbed feet & bat winged hands
His glow worm garb glints goblin wise
& elfishly & impishly
Above the gleam of owlet eyes
A death head's cap of downy dyes
Nods out at me & beckons me...' (Madison Cawein/C19th engraving, artist unknown)
'There in the calamus he stands
With frog webbed feet & bat winged hands
His glow worm garb glints goblin wise
& elfishly & impishly
Above the gleam of owlet eyes
A death head's cap of downy dyes
Nods out at me & beckons me...' (Madison Cawein/C19th engraving, artist unknown)
Yes, I'm not a fan of Wilkie Collins, despite my fondness for C19th novels.
November 1, 2026 at 9:42 PM
Yes, I'm not a fan of Wilkie Collins, despite my fondness for C19th novels.
I've been working with @vch-home.bsky.social colleagues to digitise the VCH natural history focused "Volume 1s" for @bho.bsky.social Has been utterly fascinating to pick up on tidbits about perceptions of nature in the C19th/early C20th. This is Cambridgeshire, published 1938
October 29, 2026 at 6:13 PM
I've been working with @vch-home.bsky.social colleagues to digitise the VCH natural history focused "Volume 1s" for @bho.bsky.social Has been utterly fascinating to pick up on tidbits about perceptions of nature in the C19th/early C20th. This is Cambridgeshire, published 1938
She is appropriately pumpkin-ish as befits the season, liberally swathed in ribbon & silk fringe. It is a late 1860s/early 1870s garment from the fashion house of Mme Depret, a lesser known name in late c19th couture who nonetheless produced some sartorial delights @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 3, 2026 at 11:01 AM
She is appropriately pumpkin-ish as befits the season, liberally swathed in ribbon & silk fringe. It is a late 1860s/early 1870s garment from the fashion house of Mme Depret, a lesser known name in late c19th couture who nonetheless produced some sartorial delights @metmuseum.org #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
Someone probably went there and took notes as part of a geological survey of Ireland in the C19th. The notebooks could be in Dublin. Your exposure reminds me of Hutton's Unconformity!
November 1, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Someone probably went there and took notes as part of a geological survey of Ireland in the C19th. The notebooks could be in Dublin. Your exposure reminds me of Hutton's Unconformity!
'In the C19th, Britain was the dominant global power and benefited from what economists call “exorbitant privilege”. This was the ability to easily finance debt at favourable interest rates because sterling played a central role in the int'l monetary system. London was also 🌎’s leading fin'l centre'
October 31, 2026 at 10:42 AM
'In the C19th, Britain was the dominant global power and benefited from what economists call “exorbitant privilege”. This was the ability to easily finance debt at favourable interest rates because sterling played a central role in the int'l monetary system. London was also 🌎’s leading fin'l centre'
From § 21: why the dreaming imagination builds the body as a house, a tower, a room or a bridge. Karl Albert Scherner, 1861, in Discoveries in the Realm of the Soul, from the press.
thethinkingpress.org/project/life-of-the-dream
💙📚 💡📚 #c19th
thethinkingpress.org/project/life-of-the-dream
💙📚 💡📚 #c19th
November 3, 2026 at 9:07 AM
From § 21: why the dreaming imagination builds the body as a house, a tower, a room or a bridge. Karl Albert Scherner, 1861, in Discoveries in the Realm of the Soul, from the press.
thethinkingpress.org/project/life-of-the-dream
💙📚 💡📚 #c19th
thethinkingpress.org/project/life-of-the-dream
💙📚 💡📚 #c19th
Just heard about a Collard in C19th Kent. Valet to a delusional vintner who assumed the role of vagabond King, then assumed nobility, and was finally Jesus before being shot dead attempting a coup
October 30, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Just heard about a Collard in C19th Kent. Valet to a delusional vintner who assumed the role of vagabond King, then assumed nobility, and was finally Jesus before being shot dead attempting a coup
All the institutions involved go through multiple changes of governance and affiliation. In the C19th the determiners are more local -- consider Owen's College and what it becomes. Centralization is later C19th or C20th, several initiatives, 70 and 92 follow earlier ones.
November 1, 2026 at 11:45 AM
All the institutions involved go through multiple changes of governance and affiliation. In the C19th the determiners are more local -- consider Owen's College and what it becomes. Centralization is later C19th or C20th, several initiatives, 70 and 92 follow earlier ones.
#onthisday, 1 November 1929, #Glasgow Corporation opened two Victorian-style #TurkishBaths at Elvan St, Shettleston (closed c.1971—about which little is known), & Calder St, Govanhill (Closed 2001 despite intensive protests). Govanhill Community Trust aims to re-open as a wellbeing centre. 🗃️ #C19th
November 1, 2026 at 10:09 AM
#onthisday, 1 November 1929, #Glasgow Corporation opened two Victorian-style #TurkishBaths at Elvan St, Shettleston (closed c.1971—about which little is known), & Calder St, Govanhill (Closed 2001 despite intensive protests). Govanhill Community Trust aims to re-open as a wellbeing centre. 🗃️ #C19th
An exhibition I wish I could see! Now open #PalaisGalliera A Wardrobe of One’s Own: Dissident Femininities in the 19th Century explores the masculine coded clothing and queer identities through tailored dress. It looks fabulous & if I could wiggle my nose I would go immediately! #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
October 27, 2026 at 10:27 AM
An exhibition I wish I could see! Now open #PalaisGalliera A Wardrobe of One’s Own: Dissident Femininities in the 19th Century explores the masculine coded clothing and queer identities through tailored dress. It looks fabulous & if I could wiggle my nose I would go immediately! #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
I spent a long time studying an early C19th English couple. They were spared losing a child in childhood but when they lost an adult son the father was completely undone.
October 30, 2026 at 4:59 PM
I spent a long time studying an early C19th English couple. They were spared losing a child in childhood but when they lost an adult son the father was completely undone.
Two #gothic glamour Halloween Costume options this #FashionFriday - so what will it be? A human hair trimmed cloak and dress C19th style or classic black dress and rabbit mask a la Donnie Darko 1980s. The cloak does look warmer...
#fashionhistory #Halloween #fashionmagazines #fashionarchives
#fashionhistory #Halloween #fashionmagazines #fashionarchives
October 30, 2026 at 9:01 AM
Two #gothic glamour Halloween Costume options this #FashionFriday - so what will it be? A human hair trimmed cloak and dress C19th style or classic black dress and rabbit mask a la Donnie Darko 1980s. The cloak does look warmer...
#fashionhistory #Halloween #fashionmagazines #fashionarchives
#fashionhistory #Halloween #fashionmagazines #fashionarchives
#onthisday, 1 November 1860, the 1st Class section of the Donegall St #TurkishBaths in #Belfast opened. Early morning & evening 1/6d—10.00 am to 4.00 pm 2/6. Children under 10 half-price; under 4 free. The baths adjoined the working class baths in Little Donegall St. Closed 1937—demol. 1939 🗃️ #C19th
November 1, 2026 at 9:59 AM
#onthisday, 1 November 1860, the 1st Class section of the Donegall St #TurkishBaths in #Belfast opened. Early morning & evening 1/6d—10.00 am to 4.00 pm 2/6. Children under 10 half-price; under 4 free. The baths adjoined the working class baths in Little Donegall St. Closed 1937—demol. 1939 🗃️ #C19th
In the C19th, employment was a feudal relationship. The police would hunt you down if you decided not to work for someone after signing your life away. The distinction between free labour and convict labour was more ambiguous than it is today. 
October 29, 2026 at 12:30 AM
In the C19th, employment was a feudal relationship. The police would hunt you down if you decided not to work for someone after signing your life away. The distinction between free labour and convict labour was more ambiguous than it is today. 
Carl du Prel, Magic as Natural Science, Part One: Magical Physics (1899): “The artificial imitation of this natural pattern, telegraphy without wires, must therefore also be possible.”
thethinkingpress.org/translations/magic-as-natural-science-1/excerpts
💙📚 #c19th #esotericsky
thethinkingpress.org/translations/magic-as-natural-science-1/excerpts
💙📚 #c19th #esotericsky
October 29, 2026 at 11:07 PM
Carl du Prel, Magic as Natural Science, Part One: Magical Physics (1899): “The artificial imitation of this natural pattern, telegraphy without wires, must therefore also be possible.”
thethinkingpress.org/translations/magic-as-natural-science-1/excerpts
💙📚 #c19th #esotericsky
thethinkingpress.org/translations/magic-as-natural-science-1/excerpts
💙📚 #c19th #esotericsky
Jarring, not least because the word comes from the Latin. Its use in political commentary owes more to the example/threat of the Gracchi, as interpreted in the late C19th (the approach of universal suffrage), than Cleisthenes.
October 28, 2026 at 8:09 PM
Jarring, not least because the word comes from the Latin. Its use in political commentary owes more to the example/threat of the Gracchi, as interpreted in the late C19th (the approach of universal suffrage), than Cleisthenes.
Art Schools maintain clear nationally determined educational standards, but take their awarding powers from the source of finance, the C19th industrialists or C20th state. External reliance there, will be (I think) because they lack a clear professional body. 1966 is probably the critical year.
November 1, 2026 at 11:51 AM
Art Schools maintain clear nationally determined educational standards, but take their awarding powers from the source of finance, the C19th industrialists or C20th state. External reliance there, will be (I think) because they lack a clear professional body. 1966 is probably the critical year.
He doesn’t fit into a neat story about the development of Russian music - the impact of the emancipation of the serfs in the mid-C19th, the emergence of nationalist composers & the tension between those who were European-influenced and those who resisted that (qv the latest edition of Key Changes).
October 28, 2026 at 8:53 AM
He doesn’t fit into a neat story about the development of Russian music - the impact of the emancipation of the serfs in the mid-C19th, the emergence of nationalist composers & the tension between those who were European-influenced and those who resisted that (qv the latest edition of Key Changes).
#onthisday, 29 October 1891, #Tunstall #TurkishBaths were opened, though the swimming pool & slipper baths had opened the previous July. A 1st Class Turkish cost 1/- & 6d for 2nd Class. The baths closed in 2011—Council cost-cutting—though the Turkish baths may have closed as early as 1918. 🗃️ #C19th
October 29, 2026 at 9:51 AM
#onthisday, 29 October 1891, #Tunstall #TurkishBaths were opened, though the swimming pool & slipper baths had opened the previous July. A 1st Class Turkish cost 1/- & 6d for 2nd Class. The baths closed in 2011—Council cost-cutting—though the Turkish baths may have closed as early as 1918. 🗃️ #C19th
G. H. Schubert, The Symbolism of Dreams (1814): “Does a higher calling lead you here, or idle curiosity; is it right, too, that you are walking here?” From 4. The Hidden Poet.
thethinkingpress.org/translations/symbolism-of-dreams/excerpts
💙📚 #c19th #bookhistory
thethinkingpress.org/translations/symbolism-of-dreams/excerpts
💙📚 #c19th #bookhistory
October 27, 2026 at 9:07 PM
G. H. Schubert, The Symbolism of Dreams (1814): “Does a higher calling lead you here, or idle curiosity; is it right, too, that you are walking here?” From 4. The Hidden Poet.
thethinkingpress.org/translations/symbolism-of-dreams/excerpts
💙📚 #c19th #bookhistory
thethinkingpress.org/translations/symbolism-of-dreams/excerpts
💙📚 #c19th #bookhistory
See also why all the vitally important C19th women I could name are subsumed under "Gothic romance" because there are too many to choose
October 27, 2026 at 10:48 AM
See also why all the vitally important C19th women I could name are subsumed under "Gothic romance" because there are too many to choose
Justinus Kerner, Kleksographs (1890): “Whether that was once the Baron I will not and cannot believe; That would be far too bad, in truth!” From Hades Pictures.
thethinkingpress.org/translations/kleksographs/excerpts
💙📚 #c19th #esotericsky
thethinkingpress.org/translations/kleksographs/excerpts
💙📚 #c19th #esotericsky
October 29, 2026 at 3:07 AM
Justinus Kerner, Kleksographs (1890): “Whether that was once the Baron I will not and cannot believe; That would be far too bad, in truth!” From Hades Pictures.
thethinkingpress.org/translations/kleksographs/excerpts
💙📚 #c19th #esotericsky
thethinkingpress.org/translations/kleksographs/excerpts
💙📚 #c19th #esotericsky