The Victorian Peeper

Nineteenth-century Britain through the looking glass

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Snippets #2

An early Victorian tea set of unglazed red earthenware mounted in silver by Josiah Wedgwood that may have belonged to Queen Adelaide (above) is featured in "A History of the World in 100 Objects" organized by the British Museum and the BBC...

John Galliano channels Sherlock Holmes...

The racy love life of a 19-year-old Victorian clerk is serialized online...

Charles Dickens fails to make the grade...

A disease prevalent among the Victorian poor makes an unexpected return...

And finally: The prime minister is inspired by a Victorian poem...

Posted by Kristan Tetens

4 comments:

Gayathri said...: Very nice blog. Great articles shared through this blog. Keep blogging and thanks for sharing.; January 27, 2010 at 1:17 AM
Plumbers Ealing said...: Interesting articles,thanks, not a very pretty looking tea set though lol.; February 10, 2010 at 6:49 AM
Plumber Ealing said...: What a great site I've stumbled upon. Many thanks!; April 14, 2011 at 6:14 AM
rubbish clearance said...: those Victorian pots a great. love this..; November 15, 2011 at 6:45 AM

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Victorians in the News

5 May 2012: Remembering Robert Browning
4 May 2012: Ruffians, Pickpockets, and Jewel Fences: What was Crime-Fighting Actually Like in Sherlock Holmes-Era London?
16 April 2012: Disraeli's Sensations for a Jaded Public
9 March 2012: World's Oldest Charles Dickens Film Discovered
15 February 2012: Did Rossetti Really Need to Exhume His Wife?
14 February 2012: Queen Elizabeth Marks the Dickens Bicentenary, Attends Reading of His Works at the Guildhall, London
7 February 2012: The World of Charles Dickens
5 February 2012: Dickens v. Lawyers
4 February 2012: Portsmouth, Birthplace of Charles Dickens, Marks His Bicentenary
30 January 2012: Bronte Museum Faces Closure Because of Council Budget Cuts
27 January 2012: Charlotte Bronte's Lost Love Letters to Be Published by British Library
25 January 2012: Queen Victoria's Etchings Auctioned in Gloucestershire
25 January 2012: Woolton Baths Granted Listed Status by English Heritage
25 January 2012: Middlesbrough, A Victorian New Town
24 January 2012: Charles Dickens's World of Home Interiors (Hilary Macaskill)
9 January 2012: Richard Owen, Victorian Naturalist
6 December 2011: Writers and Artists in Residence
30 November 2011: Oscar Wilde's Refurbished Tomb Ends Lip Disservice
6 October 2011: In Search of Queen Victoria's Voice
20 September 2011: The Unsolved Mystery of Lost 19th-Century Ghost Ships

Exhibitions and Events

Through 19 May at the National Gallery, Washington, DC: "Pre-Raphaelites: Victorian Art and Design, 1848-1900"
Through 19 May at the National Gallery, Washington, DC: "Pre-Raphaelites and the Book"
Through 2 June at Tate Britain, London: "Looking at the View"
Until September 2013 at Tate Britain, London: "Focus: The Image of the British School: Portraits of Artists, c. 1740-1917"
From 10 September at Tate Britain, London: "Late Turner: Painting Set Free"
Through 27 October at the London Transport Museum, London: "Poster Art 150: London Underground's Greatest Designs"
On permanent display at Kensington Palace, London: "Victoria Revealed"
On permanent display at the National Army Museum, London: "Changing the World, 1784-1904"
On permanent display at the National Maritime Museum, London: "The Atlantic: Slavery, Trade, Empire"
On permanent display at the National Maritime Museum, London: "Traders: The East India Company and Asia"
On permanent display at the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow: "Lord Kelvin: Revolutionary Scientist"
On permanent display at Tate Britain, London: "Walk Through British Art"
On permanent display at Tate Britain, London: "Turner Collection"
On permanent display at the Millennium Gallery, Sheffield: "The Ruskin Collection: The Guild of St George"
On permanent display at the Portsmouth City Museum and Record Office: "A Study in Sherlock: Uncovering The Arthur Conan Doyle Collection"
On permanent display at the Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware: "PRB: The Samuel and Mary R. Bancroft Collection of Pre-Raphaelite Art"
Ongoing: Fine Art Society (UK) exhibitions and events
Ongoing: Leighton House (UK) events
Ongoing: People's HIstory Museum / National Museum of Labor History (UK) exhibitions and events
Ongoing: Victorian Society (UK) events
Ongoing: Watts Gallery (UK) exhibitions and events

Victorian Festivals

Llandudno Victorian Extravaganza 2013 (April-May)
Broadstairs Dickens Festival 2013 (June)

Victorian Traces: 151 Places to Visit

Abbey Mills Pumping Station, London
Albert Dock/Merseyside Maritime Museum, Liverpool
Albert Memorial, London
All Saints Margaret Street, London
The Argory, County Armagh, Northern Ireland
Armley Mills -- Leeds Industrial Museum
Audley End House and Gardens, Saffron Walden, Essex
Ballater Station Replica of Queen Victoria's Train Carriage, Royal Deeside, Scotland
Balmoral Castle and Estate, Cairngorms National Park, Scotland
Bateman's (Rudyard Kipling), Burwash, East Sussex
Bedford Park, West London (first garden suburb, Aesthetic houses)
Biddulph Grange Garden, Biddulph
Birmingham Back-to-Backs, Birmingham
Birmingham Oratory (Cardinal John Henry Newman's study)
Blackwell, the Arts and Crafts House, Bowness-on-Windermere
The Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, County Durham
Brantwood (John Ruskin), Coniston
The British Empire and Commonwealth Museum, Bristol
British Schools Museum, Hitchin
Brontë Country/Haworth, West Yorkshire
The Brunel Museum, London
Brunel's Steamship "Great Britain," Bristol
Bunratty Castle and Folk Park, Shannon, Ireland
Cambridge Museum of Technology, Cambridge
Carlyle's Birthplace, Ecclefechan, Scotland
Carlyle's House, London
Castell Coch (Red Castle), Cardiff, Wales (William Burges)
Charles Dickens Museum, London
Cliveden, Taplow, Berkshire
Cornish Mining UNESCO World Heritage Site, Cornwall and West Devon
County Arcade and Cross Arcade, Victoria Quarter, Leeds
Cragside, Morpeth, Northumberland
Crimean War Memorial, London
Crossness Pumping Station (Joseph Bazalgette), London
Dimbola Lodge (Julia Margaret Cameron), Freshwater, Isle of Wight
Donaghmore Famine Workhouse Museum, County Laois, Ireland
Down House (Charles Darwin), Downe, Kent
The Drapers' Company, London (principal rooms, garden, and courtyard)
East Dene (Algernon Swinburne), Bonchurch, Isle of Wight
Elgar Birthplace Museum (Edward Elgar), Worcester
Elizabeth Gaskell House, Manchester
The Famine Museum, Strokestown, County Roscommon, Ireland
Farringford (Alfred, Lord Tennyson), Isle of Wight
Finsbury Town Hall, Islington, London
Florence Nightingale Museum
The Forth Rail Bridge, Edinburgh/Fife, Scotland
Frogmore House, Windsor Castle
George Eliot Country/Coventry-Warwickshire
Glenveagh Castle, Co. Donegal, Ireland
The Grange (AWN Pugin), Ramsgate
Great Ormond Street Hospital, London (chapel)
Grove Museum of Victorian Life, Ramsey, Isle of Man
Hardy's Cottage (Thomas Hardy), Dorchester
Hauteville House (Victor Hugo), Guernsey
Highgate Cemetery, London
Hill Top (Beatrix Potter), Ambleside, Cumbria
Holst Birthplace Museum (Gustav Holst), Cheltenham
Houses of Parliament, London
Hughenden Manor, High Wycombe (country home of Disraeli)
Ironbridge Gorge Museums, Telford
Jackfield Tile Museum, Telford
The Jerome K. Jerome Birthplace
The Judge's Lodging, Presteigne, Powys
Kedleston Hall, Derby (country home of Curzon)
Kelmscott House (Morris), Hammersmith, London
Kelmscott Manor (Morris, Rossetti), Kelmscott, Oxfordshire
Kensal Green Cemetery, London
Kensington Palace, London
Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny, Ireland
Kew Bridge Steam Museum, Brentford
Knebworth House (Lytton family), Hertfordshire
Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum and Village, Chippenham
Lamb House (Henry James), Rye
Lanhydrock, Bodmin, Cornwall
Leadenhall Market, London
Leeds Town Hall, Leeds
Leighton House Museum, London
Linley Sambourne House, London
London Canal Museum, London
Manchester Town Hall, Manchester
Marianne North Gallery (Victorian botanical illustration), Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Max Gate (Thomas Hardy), Dorchester
Monkwearmouth Station Museum, Sunderland
Moorehall (George Moore), Lough Carra, Co. Mayo, Ireland
Mount Stuart, Isle of Bute, Argyll, Scotland
Muckross House and Gardens, County Kerry, Ireland
Museum in Docklands, London
Museum of Lead Mining, Wanlockhead, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland
National Railway Museum, York
Natural History Gallery, Horniman Museum, London
Natural History Museum, Central Hall/Waterhouse Building, London
The Needles Old Battery, Isle of Wight
New West End Synagogue, London
North Yorkshire Moors Railway
The Old Walled Garden, Tonbridge
Osborne House, Isle of Wight
Oxford University Museum of Natural History, Oxford
Oxford University Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford
Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Penrhyn Castle, Bangor, Gwynedd, North Wales
Players' Theatre Victorian Music Hall, London
Queen Street Mill Textile Museum, Burnley, Lancashire
Ragged School Museum, London
Red House (William Morris), Bexleyheath
Rosedene Chartist Cottage, Bromsgrove
Royal Albert Hall, London
Russell-Cotes Art Gallery and Museum, Bournemouth
St Augustine, Kilburn, London
St Deiniol's Library (William Ewart Gladstone), Hawarden, Flintshire, Wales
St George's Hall, Liverpool
St Mary's Church, Wreay, Cumbria
St Pancras International Railway Station, London
Saltaire Village, West Yorkshire
Salts Mill, Saltaire, West Yorkshire
Sandringham House, Museum, and Gardens, Norfolk
Scottish Mining Museum / Lady Victoria Colliery, Newtongrange, Scotland
Schloss Ehrenburg (Saxe-Coburg-Gotha family), Coburg, Germany
Scotney Castle, Tunbridge Wells
The Shaw Birthplace (George Bernard Shaw), Dublin, Ireland
Shaw's Corner (George Bernard Shaw), Ayot St Lawrence, Hertfordshire
Smallhythe Place (Ellen Terry), Tenterden
Somerleyton Hall, Lowestoft, Suffolk
Souter Lighthouse, Sunderland
Standen, East Grinstead, West Sussex
Steam Yacht "Gondola," Coniston Water
Stephenson Railway Museum, North Shields
Sudley House, Liverpool
Sunnycroft, Telford
Tees Cottage Pumping Station, Darlington
The Tenement House, Glasgow
Thackray Medical Museum, Leeds
Thoor Ballylee (William Butler Yeats), County Galway, Ireland
Tower Bridge, London
Two Temple Place, Victoria Embankment, London (William Waldorf Astor)
Tyntesfield, Wraxall
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Victoria Memorial, London
Victorian Surgery at the Old Operating Theatre Museum, London
Waddesdon Manor, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Wallington, Morpeth, Northumberland (Pre-Raphaelite art)
Watts Gallery (GF Watts), Compton, Surrey
The Weavers' Triangle, Burnley
Welsh Baptist Chapel, London
Wightwick Manor, Wolverhampton
Wilde House Museum (Oscar Wilde), Dublin, Ireland
William Morris Gallery, Walthamstow
Wilton's Music Hall, London
Workhouse, Southwell
Workhouse Museum, Derry, Northern Ireland
Workhouse Museum, Ripon

Historic Preservation

2012 -- List of Top Ten Endangered Victorian Buildings (The Victorian Society)
2011-- List of Top Ten Endangered Victorian Buildings (The Victorian Society)
2010 -- List of Top Ten Endangered Victorian Buildings (The Victorian Society)
2009 -- List of Top Ten Endangered Victorian Buildings (The Victorian Society)
2008 -- List of Top Ten Endangered Victorian Buildings (The Victorian Society)
Bibliography of Works about National Trust Properties and Collections
Treasure Hunt ~ National Trust Collections
The Georgian Group
Heritage at Risk (English Heritage)
Society for the Preservation of Ancient Buildings
Heritage Open Days (annual event)
Open House London (annual event)
Story of London Festival (annual event)

New Books

4 May 2012: Taylor, "Derby Day"
20 April 2012: Stoker and Miller, "The Lost Journal of Bram Stoker"
20 February 2012: "Mrs. Robinson's Disgrace: The Private Diary of a Victorian Lady"
10 September 2011: Jeal, "Explorers of the Nile: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Great Victorian Adventure"
10 August 2011: "Moses Montefiore: Jewish Liberator, Imperial Hero"

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Aspects of the Victorian Book (British Library)
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Bodleian Libraries, Oxford: What's the Score at the Bodleian? (crowd-sourced descriptions of mid-Victorian music)
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Crimean War Research Society
Database of Mid-Victorian Illustration
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Henry Irving 1838-1905: Correspondence
Hidden Lives Revealed: A Virtual Archive ~ Children in Care, 1881-1918
History Compass
History in Focus: The Victorians
Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases
Illustrated London News
India Raj and Empire: Manuscript Collections from the National Library of Scotland (Adam Matthew Digital; subscription)
Leigh Hunt Letters
The Letters of Christina Rossetti: A Digital Edition
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Literary Resources -- Victorian British
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Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide
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Nineteenth-Century Theatre History ~ Research Guide (New York University)
The Old Bailey Online: The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Podcasts
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The Pre-Raphaelite Critic: Periodical Criticism of the Pre-Raphaelite Movement, 1846-1900
Pre-Raphaelite Online Resource (Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery)
Price One Penny: A Database of Cheap Literature, 1837-1860 (penny bloods and penny dreadfuls)
Primary Source Nexus (Library of Congress)
Prison Hulk Registers and Letter Books, 1802-1849
The Public Catalogue Foundation (publicly owned oil, acrylic, and tempera paintings in Britain)
The Quack Doctor
Queen Victoria's Empire (PBS)
Research Society for Victorian Periodicals
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Romantic Circles
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Royal Academy Collections Online
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William Armstrong: Magician of the North
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Online Journals

Australasian Journal of Victorian Studies
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Journal of Victorian Culture Online
Neo-Victorian Studies
19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies
Review 19: Assessing New Books on English and American Literature of the Nineteenth Century (NBOL) (book reviews)
RAVON: Romanticism and Victorianism on the Net
Victorian Network
Victorians Institute Journal

Online Exhibitions

British Watercolour Societies of the Nineteenth Century (V&A)
Crown & Camera: The Royal Family and Photography, 1842-1910 (Royal Collection)
A Higher Ambition: Owen Jones, 1809-74 (V&A)
Maharaja: The Splendour of India's Royal Courts (V&A)
Nineteenth-Century Painters (V&A)
Nineteenth-Century Theatre (V&A)
Photographic Treasures of the Société de géographie (BnF)
Queen Victoria and the Crimea (Royal Collection)
Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee Scrapbook (Royal Archives)
Royal Weddings, 1840-1947 (Royal Collection)
Victoria and Albert: Art & Love (Royal Collection)
Victorian Miniatures in the Collection of Her Majesty the Queen (Royal Collection)
Victorian Pantomime (V&A)
Victorian Sentimental Prints, Drawings, and Watercolours (V&A)
Watercolours of the Great Exhibition (V&A)
Yiddish Theatre in London (Jewish Museum, London)

National Archives Podcasts

Broadmoor Revealed: The Victorian Asylum
Charles Dickens, Warren's Blacking, and the Chancery Court
Constance Emily Kent: Nightdresses, Breast Flannels, and Child Murder
The First Afghan War (1838-42)
From Crime to Punishment: Criminal Records of Our Ancestors From the 18th and 19th Centuries
Genius on Trial: Key Sources Relating to Oscar Wilde at the National Archives
The Hong Kong Colonial Cemetery
Madame Rachel of Bond Street
The Metropolitan Police: An Introduction to Records of Service, 1829-1958
Nineteenth-Century Soldiers: Getting the Most from Online Resources
Out of the Way of Mischief (Victorian reform and industrial schools)
"Revolting to Humanity": Histories of Mental Health
Textile Designs 1842-1964: Exploring the Board of Trade Representations and Registers
The Thomas Cook Archives (history of travel)
Time Travel: A Journey through the Timetables of the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, 1860-1901

Multimedia

British Film Institute YouTube Channel
Queen Victoria Visits Sheffield, 1897
Mitchell and Kenyon: Pendlebury Colliery, Factory Gate, c. 1900
The Funeral of Queen Victoria, 1901

Maps

BBC Dimensions -- Map Overlays of Historical Places, Events, and Things
Greenwood's Map of London, 1827
MAPCO London and Environs Maps and Views
Victorian-Era Maps of Great Britain (Yale)

Charles Dickens ~ 1812-2012

Dickens 2012 (comprehensive list of events, exhibitions, lectures, live performances, film/TV/radio, and festivals)
Charles Dickens at 200 (The Guardian)
Going Mad for Charles Dickens (Smithsonian Institution)

Charles Darwin ~ 1859-2009

AboutDarwin.com
Charles Darwin's Beagle Diary
The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online
Darwin Correspondence Project
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Darwin at Downe
Darwin First Editions (University of Oklahoma)
"Darwin" at the Field Museum, Chicago
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The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection at the Natural History Museum, London
Book Review ~ Boulter, "Darwin's Garden"
Book Review - Jones, "Almost Like a Whale: The Origin of Species Updated"
Book Review ~ O'Connor: "The Earth on Show: Fossils and the Poetics of Popular Science, 1802-1856" and Rudwick, "Worlds Before Adam: The Reconstruction of Geohistory in the Age of Reform"

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North American Conference on British Studies (US)
North American Society for the Study of Romanticism (CAN)
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Victorian Interdisciplinary Studies Association of the Western United States (US)
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Victorian Studies Association of Ontario (CAN)
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Victorian Studies -- UK

Cambridge Victorian Studies Group, University of Cambridge
Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, Birkbeck--University of London
Centre for Nineteenth-Century Studies, University of Sheffield
Centre for Victorian Studies, University of Exeter
Centre for Victorian Studies, Royal Holloway--University of London
Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies
Victorian Studies Centre, University of Leicester

Victorian Studies -- US

Victorian Literature and Culture Seminar, Humanities Center at Harvard University
Victorian Studies Program, Indiana University

Other Victorianist Blogs

The Beagle Project Blog
The Beautiful Necessity (Pre-Raphaelite art)
BrontëBlog
Brontë Parsonage Blog
The Cat's Meat Shop (Lee Jackson)
The Cogitations of Read
Dickensblog
Edwardian Promenade
1840 (in Spanish)
An Extraordinary Incident
The Fairyland of Geometry
The Fin de Siècle
The Floating Academy
Goodreads (Victorians Group)
The Hoarding (Andrew Stauffer)
Ho Hum Another Work of the Devil (Judith Flanders)
The Little Professor (Miriam Burstein)
The Memory Clearing House (Will Tattersdill)
News from Anywhere (William Morris Society blog)
Novel Readings (Rohan Maitzen)
Of Victorian Interest (NAVSA)
Penny Plain, Twopence Coloured: Adventures of a Toy Theatre Novice
Planet Century 19
Pre-Raphaelite Art
Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood
Romantic Circles Blog
The Royal Holloway Victorian MA Blog
The Vapour Trail--Melissa Bellanta
Victorian Calendar
Victorian Dotage (Emily Andrews)
The Victorian Era
Victorian Geek (Catherine Pope)
Victorian Gothic
Victorian History (Bruce Rosen)
The Victorianist
Victorianitas
Victorian Paintings
The Victorian Wire
Victorian Women
The Virtual Victorian
William Morris Unbound
Wuthering Expectations

Other Sites of Interest

My City: London

Derelict London
The Great Wen (Peter Watts)
London Blue Plaques
London Burial Grounds
London: The Way We See It
My London, Your London
Spitalfields Life
Untold London

My City: Paris

The Bold Soul
Chocolate & Zucchini
David Lebovitz
Eye Prefer Paris
God, I Love Paris
Foreign Parts
French Word-A-Day
Just Another American in Paris
La Coquette
Kung Fu Dana
Maitresse
Paris Parfait
Paris Wise
Petite Anglaise
Polly-Vous Francais?

THE VICTORIAN PEEPER

By Appointment to H M the Queen-Empress -- Purveyor of Communiqués Digital and Historical (est. 2007)

About the Title of This Blog

"Peeper" is Victorian slang for "mirror," although its modern meaning of "voyeur" is also appropriate here, in the sense that I sometimes feel as if I'm spying on the Victorians.

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