#historical visits

[joncronshawauthor]

🌟 A Magical Week in London | Author Diary - Family Time & Harry Potter - February 16, 2024 🧙‍♂️

🏙️ Family Trip to London: This week was a special one as I took some time off to enjoy a family trip to London. It was a fantastic opportunity to step away from writing and recharge, spending quality time with loved ones. 🪄 Harry Potter Studio Tour: One of the highlights was the Harry Potter Studio Tour. As an author and a fan of the series, it was an enchanting experience to see the magical…

[daguerreotyping]

Carte de visite of two fine fellows rocking like it’s 1892 (per date on reverse), with their little dog who is vibrating into another timeline entirely

[eli-zab3th]

Abbey Library of Saint Gall, St. Gall, Switzerland

Pictures by @eli-zab3th

[marzipanandminutiae]

I saw a thread in a romance literature forum that was like "do you write mentions of female characters' body hair in period romance? or readers, do you know of any writers who do/do you imagine it when you read those books?" and the responses were wild

people were like "well I don't imagine them accidentally stepping in manure on the streets, or having rotted teeth from eating processed sugar without fluoride treatments, or dying slowly of consumption, so of COURSE I don't imagine women with armpit hair!!! it ruins the fantasy!!!"

like

those things are. not remotely equal my guy

(I can understand not mentioning it for Writing Flow Reasons. I write period fanfic a lot, and there's just very seldom a chance to organically mention body hair. I'm not going to be like "she put on her stockings over her HAIRY LEGS" in a dressing scene, for example, or "her ball gown shimmered like starlight as she whirled around the floor AND ALSO THE SHORT SLEEVES SHOWED HER UNDERARM HAIR WHICH SHE TOTALLY HAD." but. it's not on the same level as disgusting wasting diseases guys)

(that being said when reading my fanfic just assume Edith and Lucille have never shaved anything in their lives okay)

[arthistoryanimalia]

#TilesOnTuesday + #TwoForTuesday:

165 & 349 “Porcupine”

Usually these tile pairs are duplicate compositions, but not these! 👀

From the ongoing search for all the animals from the 420 original 1906 Moravian tile mosaics by Henry Mercer on the Pennsylvania Capitol floor.

[postcard-from-the-past]

"Madame Delait pruning roses"

She was a French bearded lady from Thaon-les-Vosges, Lorraine region of eastern France. She run a local pub with her husband in the town and used to shave regularly until 1900.

In 1901, she visited the carnival of Nancy with her husband and saw a bearded woman there. Upon returning to the town, one of the regulars in the pub offered her 500 Francs (roughly 5k USD in today's money) if she let her beard grow. Even though she never get the money, she kept the beard and renamed the pub to Le Café de La Femme à Barbe, "The café of the Bearded Woman".

She became a kind of celebrity, by selling postcards and photographs (in relatively feminine settings at the beginning, later she even got a special permission from the authorities to wear men's clothes at her leisure, which was illegal at the time). She also toured in Europe and became even more famous during WW1 when she joined the Red-Cross and became the mascot of the Poilu (French infantrymen with lower class background).

French vintage postcard, mailed in 1937 to Paris

[lem0nicle]

guyssss today i went to a museum alone for the first time!!! it was great :D

i mean i was scared shitless but i actually managed it! its just that i struggle a lot with like anxiety and i have extreme problems when talking to people or just like existing in public so this was a huge step for me :D

[thomtmexploration]

Exploration du donjon de Niort : une ancienne prison Vidéo:

[elephantlovemedleys]

3/? tudor aesthetics:

⎯ anne boleyn

[my-deer-friend]

[peachdues]

my hot take of the day is I despise people who do photo shoots at cemeteries and graveyards

[daguerreotyping]

Carte de visite of a dashing young Union soldier with pomade in his hair and worry in his eyes, c. 1861-65

[tmcphotoblog]

Such glorious photo of HM King George VI visiting No. 617 Squadron in 1943.

[musette22]

Goodnight from Concord 🫶🏼💫🍂

[autumnmylife]

Carcassonne, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Aude, Occitanie, France, Europe

[arthistoryanimalia]

In celebration of seeing the first fireflies of the season:

Furisode with Fireflies and Irises Japan, Edo period, 18th century silk crepe, paste-resist dyed, embroidery National Museum of Japanese History (photographed on display at The Life of Animals in Japanese Art exhbition at the National Gallery of Art DC in 2019)