Read on to learn more about floriography or the language of flowers, it’s cultural history, and Victorian meanings. Floriography is a coded communication where each flower and color holds ...

In Victorian times ladies were of necessity well educated in the recognition of flowers, spending time ‘usefully’ learning the arts, flower arranging, painting and embroidery, but for the ...

Or even crazy? Or just rebelling against the social constraints of their time? Victorian Lettering: Jenna Blazevich They say Alice Christina Abbott’s weapon of choice was a cup of tea.

The sweets were replaced by small gifts and paper hats in the late Victorian period, and remain in this form as an essential part of a modern Christmas. Decorating the home at Christmas also ...

Victorian floriography - the practice of assigning codes to flowers to send messages via bouquets and arrangements, also called the language of flowers - associates basil with hatred. This link comes ...

Jet, a flat-black, opaque gemstone derived from wood that has experienced extreme compression over millions of years, was the haute stone throughout the Victorian era, a time when fashion and ...

Sure they might have been sticklers for following the rules, but from being courted to dressing up for dinner, some Victorian mandates could be fun. Crop tops and sweatpants were certainly not ...

It’s early October, and it seems like most of us are making plans for Halloween and all of the spooky season offerings. If ...

For every “gyatt” today (originally a variation of “god damn”, now referring to a curvy woman) there was a “dog my cats” or “od’s fish” in the Victorian era (both also meant ...

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New figures reveal that hundreds of people across Yorkshire have been hospitalised due to a rare skin condition. The NHS data indicates a rise in diagnoses of scabies, a rash triggered by tiny ...