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elizabethscrase.bsky.social

Writer, musician, historian, and artist. 1876 is part of a creative project ✒️ PhD student. Dyslexic. Accidentally a Victorian historian.🕷️⭐🏳️‍⚧🌈🇺🇦

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Big old... quite old stack of books. I will be looking at each one of these lovely things over the next year. So, if you like books from the 1800s and 1900s, it might be fun! I will also be posting artefacts and other interesting things as I ramp my sm back up. So, come with me on a journey!

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#OTD 1875 The aerophore, an apparatus to enable a person to enter a noxious, inflammable atmosphere, was successfully tested at #Chatham over 2 days. Invented by Louis Denayrouze, a naval lieutenant, it comprised an air-pump, lamp, and flexible tubing.

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Car had gone fluffy with frost! Any way, sorted the library bit and some good old book pics from some very rare books will turn up soon! Here's a fluffy car top in the meantime. #frost

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My attempt at photography of the Moon and Venus, with my phone. Looks kinda festive.

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OK... Big tidy up of the office space today. Which includes the library... I hope I don't find any spiders. 🕷🕸😭 Think of a witch/wizard room (yes, there's a skull and other strange stuff, also a black cat) that has been left for 1000 years. Where did all the stuff come from!?

submitted 69 days ago • 1 comment

Fk off 2024 and what the fk you looking at 2025?

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Think I'm going to re-take up doing art work, as a chill side hustle. (Sorry for the massive watermark, ya know how it is on the Internet).

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I really need to update the book collection piccy. Keep an eye out for exploration of each book over time as I reboot my social media!

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One of my favourite 1876 project pictures! Can you tell what is original and what is reproduction? Answers in alt text. I will cover each item over time on here ☺️

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Yearly reminder... It's 1868 and 'Santa' as we know him is shown selling Sugar Plums. Coca-cola did not... I repeat did NOT invent Santa as we know him. Coca-cola was first introduced in 1886.

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And 'of course, I will post some pics of Canterbury cathedral at night.

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Ahh what exotic medieval city is this? A view down the city river edged with ancient buildings... Yup, it's Canterbury! And I was on may way to the cathedral for some evening carols by candle light. How often does one get to do that? (once a year for me).

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Pussy cat keeping warm!

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Part two of the tale! Now Christmas has begun 🎄

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Whooop! And joy! It's Christmas time! And welcome to a touch of a Victorian festive gift from 1876! This lovely book would have brought joy to many we will never know. So, let's enjoy a bit of christmas fun over December along with those who did before us in 1876. #Victorian #Christmas #History

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Public service announcement that Charles Booth's 'Maps Descriptive of London Poverty, 1898-9' have been uploaded by LSE archive online to be viewed and reproduced freely. 🗃️ unsplash.com/collections/...

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Canterbury Cathedral just so happens to be out there. Soooo here's a picture! Not a bad place to mooch and chill out of the way of the city centre.

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Big nope from the cat.

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