New Old Time
The Golden Hive: Victorian Apiculture and the E...
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, beekeeping underwent a transformation that its practitioners described, with characteristic Victorian confidence, as a revolution. The introduction of the movable-frame hive, the...
The Golden Hive: Victorian Apiculture and the E...
In the closing decades of the nineteenth century, beekeeping underwent a transformation that its practitioners described, with characteristic Victorian confidence, as a revolution. The introduction of the movable-frame hive, the...
The Secret Language of Bouquets: Robert Tyas an...
In Victorian England, flowers were not merely decorative. They were a language — precise, codified, and capable of conveying emotions that the strict social etiquette of the era made impossible...
The Secret Language of Bouquets: Robert Tyas an...
In Victorian England, flowers were not merely decorative. They were a language — precise, codified, and capable of conveying emotions that the strict social etiquette of the era made impossible...
Three Yellow Satin Shoes: T. Watson Greig and t...
In 1900, Captain Thomas Watson Greig of Glencarse — Scottish antiquarian, collector, and passionate preservationist — published one of the most extraordinary documents of Victorian women's fashion ever produced: sixty-three...
Three Yellow Satin Shoes: T. Watson Greig and t...
In 1900, Captain Thomas Watson Greig of Glencarse — Scottish antiquarian, collector, and passionate preservationist — published one of the most extraordinary documents of Victorian women's fashion ever produced: sixty-three...
The Girl on the Swing: Gaston Maréchaux and the...
On the cover of Gaston Maréchaux's Album à Colorier, published around 1920 by the French publisher G. Marton, a girl sits on a swing holding a painter's palette, with pots...
The Girl on the Swing: Gaston Maréchaux and the...
On the cover of Gaston Maréchaux's Album à Colorier, published around 1920 by the French publisher G. Marton, a girl sits on a swing holding a painter's palette, with pots...
O.P.! O.P.! The Old Price Riots of 1809 and the...
In September 1809, the newly rebuilt Covent Garden Theatre opened with dramatically increased ticket prices. The audience’s response was immediate, sustained, and extraordinarily theatrical: 67 consecutive nights of chanting, banging,...
O.P.! O.P.! The Old Price Riots of 1809 and the...
In September 1809, the newly rebuilt Covent Garden Theatre opened with dramatically increased ticket prices. The audience’s response was immediate, sustained, and extraordinarily theatrical: 67 consecutive nights of chanting, banging,...
Agile as a Swallow's Flight: Marcello Dudovich ...
In the 1920s and 1930s, a generation of Italian illustrators — Marcello Dudovich, Ernesto Pirovano, Teodoro Wolf Ferrari — transformed the advertising of typewriters into some of the finest graphic...
Agile as a Swallow's Flight: Marcello Dudovich ...
In the 1920s and 1930s, a generation of Italian illustrators — Marcello Dudovich, Ernesto Pirovano, Teodoro Wolf Ferrari — transformed the advertising of typewriters into some of the finest graphic...