Storm Austen is coming. If you are a woman of marriagable age do not attempt to travel to Netherfield without a carriage
Sarah Wise
@misssarahwise.bsky.social
Historian, researcher, author, tutor, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society misssarahwise.co.uk https://linktr.ee/misssarahwise Latest book: The Undesirables https://www.stanfords.co.uk/the-undesirables-the-law-that-locked-away-a-generation
Sing a song of England, Shuddering with cold, Doomed to slow starvation, By the gods of gold, See her famished children, Hunger-marked, and mean, Isn't that a dainty dish, To lay before the Queen? A New Nursery Rhyme,' Tom Maguire 1893 I came across this in Chris Nickson's novel Gods of Gold
'Islington Canal Buildings' (1973) by Käthe Strenitz fiftiesart.com/product/strenitz-kathe-islington-canal-buildings/
Pauper children from Wednesbury were rarely apprenticed to Worcs, indicating there were greater opportunities in Staffs industries. Girls from Wednesbury were sometimes apprenticed further afield: in 1795 six girls were sent to a cotton mill in Manchester. www.herts.ac.uk/uhpress/book...
Ann Jennings, the headmistress of Pantglas Junior School, receiving a petition from concerned parents in 1964 about the potential danger of the tips above the school. The headmistress took the petition to Merthyr Council but the parents' fears were ignored. #Aberfan
'Billingsgate, Early Morning' (from 'London: A Pilgrimage', 1872) by Gustav Doré
On #Halloween please join me @citylit.bsky.social for my study day 'Bodysnatching and Anatomy in London, c.1780-c.1845', 10am-4pm. We’ll explore the resurrection men, their working and social lives; the surgeons they supplied; and when grave-robbery turned to murder. Details: shorturl.at/GaOZU
'The Saloon Bar at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane' by Clare Atwood (1866–1962) (National Trust, Smallhythe Place)
Hand-written note attached reads ‘sleeve for slight mourning dress’. Sleeve ruffle in cream figured satin from a woman's dress, made in England, 1771. More here: collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O315913...
The tiny Victorian letter box at the end of my road is from the era of 3-4 postal deliveries a day when you could send someone an invitation to afternoon tea and receive a reply by lunchtime.
This photo of Amelia Dyer was taken after her arrest in April 1896. Aged 57, she had run her baby farming business for 30 years, advertising in the press to adopt infants, and then allowing them to waste away, or even worse. This is a chilling case and a dark history 🔗 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068185244
Today’s #househistories feature in The Times is a wonderful Georgian house in Soho! Built in 1736, it has been home to many Londoners, including a family of jewellers to Queen Victoria & was previously rented by Johnny Depp!! 😀 #househistory #history
Fairly rare that I write much (been busy) - but here is a review of Emily Gee's excellent book Hostel, House and Chambers: Accommodating the Victorian and Edwardian Working Woman, published by @livunipress.bsky.social #ArchitecturalHistory #Housing architecturalhistoryjournal.com/articles/10....
Were you involved in childcare campaigns or community childcare between 1970 and 2010 in England? I'm looking for people who'd like to contribute their memories and experiences to my research on the history of activism around early childhood education and care. If that’s you please get in touch!
Before job centres existed, public librarians helped unemployed people find work by displaying the “situations vacant” columns inside their reading rooms or on noticeboards outside the library building. Ralph Hedley Seeking Situations (1904) On display at the Laing Gallery in Newcastle.
On #Halloween please join me @citylit.bsky.social for my study day 'Bodysnatching and Anatomy in London, c.1780-c.1845', 10am-4pm. We’ll explore the resurrection men, their working and social lives; the surgeons they supplied; and when grave-robbery turned to murder. Details: shorturl.at/GaOZU
New page on my website, expanding some of the associations of Charles Dickens with Hendon. Includes the gruesome Sultan of Hendon, the Rev Theodore Williams, who, when not tormenting workhouse inmates, had an unhealthy interest in burkers and beheading. theresamusgrove.wordpress.com/dickens-and-...
Dickens and Hendon
Dalya Alberge’s article about Charles Dickens and His Hidden Family History, in Friday’s Guardian, highlights just one aspect of the association Dickens had with the Burroughs area of Hendon, in th…
theresamusgrove.wordpress.com
Isn't she lovely... this German 1800s doll's head is particularly winsome. The second photo shows how I found her, on one of the recent low evening tides, in an area which isn't often exposed.
'Unloading the Barge, Lindsey Wharf', Chelsea by Walter Greaves (1846–1930) (Chelsea Library)
And from nearly 50 years earlier, ‘A Shower of German Paupers, or Bad Weather for John Bull’ in the Penny Satirist magazine, 14 March 1840
Sarah Wise@misssarahwise.bsky.social · 2w agoSuper-nasty anti-migrant cartoon from 1892 – ‘Fun’ magazine showing a German migrant being dumped as rubbish, the accusation being they brought ‘dirt’ and cholera, and undercut wages
Super-nasty anti-migrant cartoon from 1892 – ‘Fun’ magazine showing a German migrant being dumped as rubbish, the accusation being they brought ‘dirt’ and cholera, and undercut wages
Great piece in today's Guardian about my Dickens book, focusing on one new line of discovery - how reports of the fate of Alice Shepherd, a woman in the Hendon Workhouse, appears to have influenced the story of Oliver Twist: www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...
Please, sir, can I have a walk? Dickens biographer finds likely inspiration for Oliver Twist
Exclusive: Theresa Musgrove unearths newspaper archives showing one Alice Shepherd was severely punished in 1836 for similarly innocent request
theguardian.com
On Weds 4 November, 7pm, I'm giving a talk online @citylit.bsky.social about no 18 Denmark St. Here at the 'Eclectic Hall' , a range of 19th-century radicals attracted sellout crowds. We'll explore the shifting political and cultural currents of Soho and St Giles at mid-century tinyurl.com/239zd65p
Charing Cross Bridge - 1899 https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/10737
Glasgow book launch. The Glasgow book launch for my new book, An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class, is being held at Glasgow University at 6pm on Thursday 29 October. You're all welcome! Sign up here 🔽 It's free!
An Injury to All: The Unmaking of the British Working Class
Join us on Thursday 29 October for this event which is part of the University of Glasgow's Festival for Social Sciences offering.
eventbrite.co.uk
#OtD 3 Oct 1937 almost a year after their defeat at Cable St, Mosley's Blackshirts attempted to march through Bermondsey, South London. Met with strong local opposition and barricades in the streets, the march never arrived at its intended destination workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e35-...
