Brian Tomlin | May 20, 2013
Kitchens in the Civil War era were largely utilitarian, serving as the workhorse of most households. Meals were prepared, laundry was done, and activities as diverse as candle making, soap making, silver polishing, medical treatments, and in some cases things like bathing were all done in this room. As such, it was often the room […]
Brian Tomlin | April 30, 2013
April 1863 April 14. William Bullock patents the continuous roll printing press, which drastically sped up the printing process. The press could print up to 12,000 sheets an hour; later improvements raised the speed to up to 30,000 sheets an hour. Richard March Hoe had invented the rotary press in the 1840s, but Bullock’s press was an improvement over […]
Brian Tomlin | April 15, 2013
The front room of every house in the Victorian era. referred to as the parlor, was by far the most important room in the house. The most money was spent on its furnishing and decorating, the most consideration given to decorating and design. This was the room visitors would see, after all, and was a […]
Jake Wynn | April 1, 2013
The 2002 blockbuster Gangs of New York struck me from the moment I first watched it as an impressionable 14 year old, but probably not the way you would expect. It wasn’t the surplus of stars or the big-named director. It wasn’t the gratuitous violence or the special effects. What I saw most in this […]
Brian Tomlin | March 31, 2013
March 1863 March 2. Clapham Junction railroad station opens in London. Clapham Junction station opened on 2 March 1863, a joint venture of the L&SWR, the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway (LB&SCR) and the West LondonExtension Railway (WLER) as an interchange station for their lines. When the station was built Battersea was regarded as a poor district while Clapham, […]
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