Links tagged with “19thcentury”
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Locating London’s Past
Amazingly good versions of the 1746 Rocque map of London, and the first (1869-80) OS map. All fully tiled, zoomable searchable, etc. The mapping methodology page makes me glad I never tried this. (via @agpublic)
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LRB · Jenny Diski · Toxic Lozenges
About how common arsenic poisoning (both murder and accidental) was, mainly in the 19th century. Fascinating.
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Westminster City Council - The Life and Loves of a Victorian Clerk
Least inspiring implementation yet of realtime-historical-diary-online? No RSS, links, weblog view. Does have pictures though. And pointless generic “Was this useful?” block.
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The Diary of a Nobody, as a daily weblog
From ‘Punch’ magazine in 1888.
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493. South Park, San Francisco.
South Park around 1860 or 1870. One of many great old photos on this University of California site.