Victorian hobbies

From graveyard picnics to humanlike animal taxidermy, these Victorian pastimes are certainly unusual by modern standards.

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Many leisure activities enjoyed by Victorians look bizarre from a modern perspective. Here are some of the strangest free-time activities of the 19th century.

Where has this been all my life? -cj Victorian Parlor Games. Click to download as PDF.

Gender- Women in the 19th century

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I share a few ways to begin the transition into an old fashioned lifestyle.

There remains some mystery around what life was like in the 1800s, especially for teens. Most people alive today were not around in the Victorian era when the technologies now deemed old-fashioned were a novelty. In this rediscovered 1970s clip from the BBC, two elderly women reminisce about what it was like being teenagers during a time when the horse and buggy was still the fastest way to get around.

In the late 19th century, there was a girl named Emily, who was renowned in her small Victorian town for her peculiar hobby of collecting treasures....