Barbara J Starmans

Blind, Deaf and Dumb, Imbecile, or Lunatic

People

11 11 min read

What did it mean to be one of those with what were considered to be ‘grave infirmities’ in the Victorian...

Siege of Lucknow

Military

9 21 min read

By 1857, India was all but ruled by the East India Company who traded from India on behalf of the...

Eighteen Hundred and Froze To Death

Disasters

2 7 min read

The summer of 1816 has been called ‘the summer that never was’, ‘the poverty year’ and ‘eighteen hundred and froze...

The Ghost Days

Domestic

4 4 min read

On 24 February 1582, Pope Gregory XIII issued a papal bull or charter that began with the words Inter gravissimas...

Visitation of the Plague, London 1665

Medicine

4 9 min read

It was in early December 1664 when two men died at the upper end of Drury Lane in St. Giles...

Etiquette for Ladies [aesop_image imgwidth=”350px” img=”https://www.thesocialhistorian.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/ShoeFitting.jpg” offset=”-200px” align=”right” lightbox=”on” captionposition=”left”] Victorian ladies should consider the introduction of one acquaintance to another a...