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The Stranger Side of Victorian Life
Why Did Victorian Britain Go Mad for Ferns?
They hunted them on hillsides, displayed them beneath glass and put their curling fronds on household objects. Victorian fern fever turned an unassuming plant into a fashionable obsession — and some wild populations paid a heavy price.
The Stranger Side of Victorian LifeWhy Did Victorians Give Each Other Jewellery Made from Hair?
A bracelet made from your mother's hair. A locket containing your sweetheart's. To Victorian eyes, these could be gifts of affection rather than reminders of death. The surprising history of hairwork reveals how people carried a little of someone they loved wherever they went.
The Stranger Side of Victorian LifeWhy Did Victorians Fear Being Buried Alive?
The terrifying history of safety coffins, graveyard bells and the nineteenth-century obsession with premature burial.