Hello peeps.

I turn toward you because I have quite a specific question about mourning rules in Victorian London, and Google hasn't been of much help (too specific of a question, I guess.)

Character A mother dies quite suddenly. "Mother" is survived by her husband and two daughters, let's call them A & B. Upper class family, not aristocratic.
How long ( Read more... )

Writing a story set in America in the 1870s and I need some examples of folk rituals/folk beliefs for cures of spiritual/supernatural ailments. I have vague recollections of things like leaving a silver coin in the hollow of an old tree from Mark Twain's works, but my cursory research (Googling using "folk rituals" "folk beliefs" "cure for curses ( Read more... )

I'm writing a story set in 1870 in the United States. My character has traveled to Europe, but he's West Point trained and fought in the Civil War, and he's been a wagon master as well, taking trains out to the west coast. I need to know if I can have him say, "Okay, I'll bite ( Read more... )

If you can't visit the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in person, there's still some interesting stuff on their blog, including this link to NYPD historical crime scene photos from the pre-WWI era, which the Museum used as reference for one of the homes they refurbished (since crime scene photos show homes that haven't been tidied up for visitors ( Read more... )

Standard inheritance, Earl created in the dim distant past, no odd clauses, all legitimate ( Read more... )

Allright I have Googled my brains out for the answer to this and no luck. I've combed through about every website on the metropolitan police and the city of London police and came up with nothing

I know that around the 1870s the police of London had divisions the only one I'm recalling at the moment was H division which was centered in whitechapel ( Read more... )

I have googled: British Vice-Consul in Basra at around 1878; British Vice-Consul Basra Carter 1878; British Vice-Consul Bassorah 1878; and various combinations of the above ( Read more... )

Time: 1879 - 1880
Setting: Penzance, Cornwall; London ( Read more... )

Searched: variations of Kamo no Matsuri 1870's/1880's, Aoi no Matsuri 1870's/1880's, and Aoi Festival Meiji Period.
Found: No day-to-day details nor any mention of interim activities.

Question: When the Aoi Festival was discontinued during the Meiji Period, exactly how discontinued was it? Wiki (ugh) only indicates that the procession was ( Read more... )

I've googled and wikipedia'd various combinations of "british army," "officers," "victorian," "daily life," "19th century," and the like, and while I've been able to find all sorts of information about British army life for regular soldiers, I'm coming up short for officers beyond the fact that most were from aristocratic backgrounds. Specifically ( Read more... )