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@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. 📚🎶
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@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.”
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@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