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I swore I'd stop banging on about the misrepresentation of newspapers in historical dramas, but then THIS happened in #EnolaHolmes , and here we are again. The Pall Mall Gazette

I've just watched the trailer for the new Dickens movie. I'm not usually bothered by inaccuracies in historical dramas, but I'd like to politely request that film makers STOP PUTTING

In 1877, the Police News reported this extraordinary story of a celebrated Parisian dancer who, they claim, auctioned off her amputated leg to a Hungarian prince for the sum of

Meanwhile, in nineteenth-century Kansas...When a man "made some remarks derogatory to the character of Mrs Antonia Fell" she went after him with a pair of cowhide whips and administered a

In 1877, a mysterious young woman allegedly turned up at the fashionable Long Branch beach resort in New Jersey. She was beautiful, glamorous, and seemed to have limitless cash —

Here's something that might surprise you: early issues of @voguemagazine often featured jokes on their front page! (1894) [Enlarged caption, in case you can't read the original small print] They

This week I've been reading Victorian erotica — *FOR LEGITIMATE RESEARCH PURPOSES* — and I can't stop laughing at it. If you were trying to write a parody of a

In 1888, Answers magazine ran a competition inviting readers to predict what life would be like in Britain 'a hundred years hence.' Strap in and get ready to learn how

Greetings, friends! To help us all pass the time in quarantine, I've put together a quiz devoted to odd bits of Victorian history! You can play along on Twitter, or