Patrick Leary

Very helpful, thank you. But oh how I miss Hansard at Huddersfield! The closing down of that site was a great loss.

Billy Yank & Johnny Reb Letters For the past sixteen years following my retirement, I have dedicated myself to the transcription of letters—encompassing thousands of Civil War era correspondence and diaries that have remained unp…

Some of the most engrossing 19th century prose I know of can be found on a website run by a retiree who has spent the last 16 years transcribing thousands of letters, almost all of them in private hands, written by Civil War soldiers. billyyankjohnnyreb.wordpress.com/2015/12/05/l... #19thCentury

All that for only 25 cents!

Early 1950s Commercial for Wheaties YouTube video by DeputyDoug829

Interesting context for those ubiquitous “breakfast of champions” ads for Wheaties. m.youtube.com/watch?v=L5wb...

Oh my, what a find! Bless you, Ryan, for giving these treasures such a good home. @sharpweb.bsky.social

Fun thread. A good source for this sort of thing for the 19th century is Brantlinger’s The Reading Lesson. iupress.org/978025321249...

Indeed.

News of the imminent demise of the mass market paperback has sent my thoughts back to some of the more luridly packaged “classics” of my youth.

Best of luck with everything, Bethany, and congratulations on all your good work.

Got this too—spectacularly stupid.

In this context I can’t resist mentioning Lydia Murdoch’s splendid new book, What We Mourn, all about how the deaths of children came to shape 19th-c. public attitudes and policy. www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10147/ #victorian

This interview was a lot of fun to do. Many thanks to Dr. Matthew Stephens (@c19thnewshound.bsky.social) for the kind invitation.

Great news -- I've posted it to the FB group Old Time Radio Researchers.

Texas Monthly is an oasis of fairmindedness, wry humor, solid reporting, and exquisite prose; consistently not just one of the best regional magazines but one of the best American magazines, period. Also an unfailing guide to good BBQ.

Well, it's hard not to plump for Martin Tupper, who would hang on until 1889 but whose pious platitudes had worn out their welcome, at least among sophisticated readers, some decades earlier.

Here’s a little known fact about Gorey: as a schoolboy in Wilmette, Illinois, he was classmates with Charlton Heston. The history museum there has his first published artwork, for the school yearbook. wilmettehistory.org/wp-content/u...

H.M.S. Surprise by Patrick O'Brian. If you like that one, there are many others where that came from -- but this is the one to start with.

Max Beerbohm remarked of Sutherland’s portrait of Max’s neighbor, Somerset Maugham, that Maugham looked as if he’d died under torture.

Native Texas agrees. Paxton will win and be an utter embarrassment to all decent people, but the GOP is comfortable with cretinous loudmouths like Tuberville in Bama and Johnson in Wisconsin.

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Both were magnificent all through the tournament.

I know the third place name, Frederic Farrar, mainly as the author of that awful tale of boyish moral turpitude, Eric, or Little by Little. But until I looked him up just now I did not realize that he was the only cleric to have served as a pallbearer at Darwin's funeral at Westminster Abbey.

Save the dates for our upcoming #RSVPDigiEvents! More details will be shared as dates approach (so watch this space!). Registration links for each of these events can be found by scanning the QR code or visiting our website: rs4vp.org/digital-even... Hope to "see" you there!

That Ruskin number goes a long way to explain the enormous edition of his work later published by Cook and Wedderburn, both of whom were in their early 30s when this poll came out. His status as greatest writer/thinker of the age must have seemed incontestable to them when they began their work.

You know you’re back in Texas when…

I so hope that one of those The Woman’s Journal tote bags survives in a museum somewhere.

Well, it’s something to do.

PhD students in the UK with a Victorianist bent will want to take particular note of the placement titled "Illustrated Newspapers: Beyond the Illustrated London News": cdn.sanity.io/files/v5dwki...
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Just tried it and it seems to be back. But my goodness how dependent we are on something that can disappear so completely and with no warning.