The Lost Art of Victorian Human Hair Shrines
Meander through enough Sunday flea markets, and you’re bound to come across a Victorian grief…
Category Obscure history
Curiosity du Jour: The Talking Victorian Bouquet
The Victorians loved their secrets. They hid them in the details but wore them on…
There might be a Secret Painting Hiding in that Old Book of Yours
Books can be magical things, but some as it turns out, may be more magical…
Curiosity du Jour: Inside Out Handbags of Yore
Empty a woman’s handbag inside out and you’ve got the right idea about the chatelaine.…
Another Reason to Check Your Attic: Priest Holes
Once upon a time in ye olde England, it was illegal to be Catholic. In…
That Time the Paris Mosque Helped Jews Escape the Nazis by Giving Them Muslim IDs
Here’s one they left out of the history textbooks. A recent French film, Free Men,…
Vacationing at the Edge of a Giant Hole in the Earth
You might have seen photographs around on the web of this giant hole that’s so big…
The Palatial Ruins of the First Western Black Monarchy
Once known as the ‘Versailles of the Caribbean’, its hollow ruins are one of the…
Meet the Most Feared Women in History
From daughters to soldiers, from wives to weaponized, they remain the only documented frontline female…
Botany and the Forgotten Sexual Revolution
Sex and botany– two words rarely found in the same sentence, but there was a time when…
Before Disneyland Paris, there was Human Roulette and Drag Balls at the Lost “Magic City”
Dragons curled up under the bridge. Toboggans splashed Parisians in to the Seine, benches twirled,…
The Town where Unwanted Architecture Found a Home
If you were to take photographs of the most charming villages from around the world…