Prepare yourself for a night of gruesome amputations, crazy drug parties, and mental breakdowns. So, sharpen those knives and put on your best blood-soaked apron as we dissect the Victorian Surgical Revolution.

The Victorian Slang word of the day is sure to leave you in knots.

Music by:
David Fesilyan & David Renda
 

Sources:

F. B. Smith, The People’s Health 1830-1910 (London: Croom Helm, 1979), 262

Adrian Teal, The Gin Lane Gazette (London: Unbound, 2014).

John Eric Erichsen, On Hospitalism and the Causes of Death after Operations (London: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1874), 98.

Lindsey Fitzharris, Houses of Death: Walking the Wards of a Victorian Hospital, 2017 https://www.drlindseyfitzharris.com/2017/03/24/houses-of-death-walking-the-wards-of-a-victorian-hospital/

Karen Rosa Hammerschlag “The Gentleman Artist- Surgeon in Late Victorian Group Portraiture” 2013
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5125553/

Vipin K Gupta, Chhavi Saini, Meher Oberoi, Gagan Kalra, Md Imran Nas. "Semmelweis Reflex: An Age-Old Prejudice "

Hugh Small, “Florence Nightingale and the Germ Theory of Disease” 2018.

H. Laing Gordon. Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870)

The Christmas tradition of sharing ghost stories was beloved by many in Victorian England. So, put on your warmest clothing as we explore a Victorian mid-winter, when the veil between the living and the dead is at its thinnest. Where ghosts roam and Scrooge groans a very un-merry, Humbug!

Music By: David Fesilyan

tag: Victorian History

Sources:

Wilde, Oscar "The Soul of a Man Under Socialism" 1891

Picard, Liza. “Education in Victorian Britain.” The British Library. The British Library, 2014. Web. 15 Nov 2016.

Lloyd, Amy J.: “Education, Literacy and the Reading Public.” British Library Newspapers.Detroit: Gale, 2007

London Weather J.H. Brazell HMSO (Meteorological Office) 1968

Roll up your sleeves, and let’s carve into the Victorian’s fascination and love for tattoos- that crossed both class and gender divides, empowering men and women alike to live their best lives and turn their bodies into living, breathing works of art. This episode has got liars, tigers and fairs, oh my!

The Victorian slang term of the day will leave you asking for some baby powder.

Sources:

Dawson, Rachel. Inking the Victorians: The Story of Sutherland Macdonald- Britain's First Professional Tattooist. 

Nyssen, Carmen. Tom Riley : "The Making of a Tattooist"

Stewart, Jessica. "Amazing Photos Reveal the Work of Britain's First Tattoo Artist in Victorian Times"

Hartog, Kristenden "The Fashionable Craze of Today: A Victorian Tattoo Artist"

"Died After Being Tattooed- A Mysterious Death." Eastern Evening News, 6 April, 1899.

"Tattooing Among the Aristocracy." Nottingham Journal, 7 April, 1899.

“Tatooist’s Exciting Adventure.” Belfast News-Letter, 17 April, 1906.

Music by:
David Fesilyan & David Renda