Thank you to everyone who came along and participated in the activities!
#Floriography #PublicSpeaking #VictorianHistory #BotanicalArt #Heritage #HistoryTalks
@digcrazygal.bsky.social
@digcrazygal.bsky.socialThank you to everyone who came along and participated in the activities!
#Floriography #PublicSpeaking #VictorianHistory #BotanicalArt #Heritage #HistoryTalks
@thriftedmoments.bsky.social🌿New YouTube Short!
Why did Victorians put celery in vases?
It sounds strange today, but celery was once a luxury food. Families displayed it in #CeleryVases as a dining table centrepiece.
#VictorianHistory #FoodHistory #HistoryShorts #EAPG #HeritageGardening
@econopass.comFlorence Nightingale Was Not a Gentle Nurse. She Was a Statistician Who Rewrote Medical Science.
#FlorenceNightingale #MedicalHistory #DataVisualization #VictorianHistory #WomenInScience #PublicHealth #CrimeanWar #Bluesky #Flipboard
@fediboard-science.bsky.socialeconopass.com · Simon De Lafronde
Florence Nightingale Was Not a Gentle Nurse. She Was a Statistician Who Rewrote Medical Science.
#florencenightingale #medicalhistory #datavisualization #victorianhistory #womeninscience #publichealth #crimeanwar #amazing
@edgeofhumanity.bsky.social
@historyrage.bsky.social🚨 THIS WEEK ON PATREON & APPLE 🚨 🎄 The Victorian Christmas carol wasn't simply handed down unchanged. John Potter explains how 1820s–30s antiquarians rescued old songs they feared were disappearing — then helped reshape the tradition forever. 📚🎶
@theabulletaway.com
@nextgreatread.bsky.social“We . . . go out into the Waste Land of Experts, each knowing so much about so little that he can neither be contradicted nor is worth contradicting.”
#BookSky #Books #VictorianHistory #SocialCritique #BritishCulture
@bakerstreetholmes.bsky.socialThe Great Moon Hoax of 1835: a penny paper convinced a city that Sir John Herschel had found winged man-bats on the Moon. The readers believed because they wished to believe. https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-men-bats-of-the-moon-af3 #VictorianHistory #MoonHoax
@bakerstreetholmes.bsky.socialMary, Queen of Scots wrote in code at Chartley Hall. A beer barrel smuggled her cipher post in and out — until Walsingham's man Phelippes read it like a diary and faked a postscript to catch the plotters. https://bakerstreetholmes.substack.com/p/the-cipher-in-the-beer-barrel #VictorianHistory