A Queen of Mobility
How Queen Victoria changed the face of mobility.
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Today is Fountain Pen Day
Why was the fountain pen a really big deal?
Continue reading →Storm Jars: Victorian Weather Forecasters
Human beings have longed to predict the weather since pretty much forever. During the Victorian era, early tools to predict the weather predictions made their way into homes in the form of storm jars or storm glasses.
Continue reading →How Times have Changed: The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act of 1919
My stories often feature women whose unusual skills, place them in roles that put them nose to nose with men in authority-but why are the men so dead-set against them?
Continue reading →Games of Jane Austen’s World: Rounders
What did the gentlemen and ladies of the Regency Era do for fun? With the leisure time the gentry class enjoyed, pleasant pastimes were necessary–so without cable tv or streaming media, what did they do?
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